Re: [SPAM] [tied] Re: Latin /a/ after labials, IE *mori

From: G&P
Message: 64002
Date: 2009-06-04

> What have "blood links" got to do with

> sons-in-law?

 

To me this debate seems a little wrong-headed.  Sons-in-law are part of a family; and languages can be imagined which extend either “knowing” or “begetting” in a huge variety of ways.  Instead, we should listen to the firm linguistic evidence that schwebeablaut does not exist, and *g’n-H is “know”, while *g’-nH is “beget”.

 

Peter