--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> Just back from sunny Copenhagen and the Sound of Indo-European
> conference. Had a very good time, listened to 40+ papers and read
> one myself. Met, among others, many wonderful people with surnames
> ending in <-sen>, such as Rasmussen, Olsen, Jørgensen and... yes,
> Pedersen too!
That was me, 'cause Holger is dead. Yes, I actually exist.
And we had coffee on sunny Christianshavn.
Here is the first contribution from that conference,
from Gordon Whittaker's lecture 'Aspects of Euphratic Phonology'
Muitivalent signs:
Sum. umbin 'nail, claw" cf. IE H3n.gWH- (or *h3n.gH-w-) 'nail, claw'
Sum. umbin '(container for animal fat)' cf. IE* H3n.gW-en-'fat, salve'
Sum. umbin 'wheel' cf. IE H3n.bh-en-'navel; hub'
cf.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/63818
and the whole mess in
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Hng.html
Torsten