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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2009-06-05 00:22, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> > Really? And what is that position from where something that 'EXIST HAS
> > DISSAPEARED WITH NO TRACES IN ALL THE LANGUAGES'?
>
> As there are no secure Anatolian cognates of <mare>, we cannot be sure
> whether it was *mori or *morhi. The fact that *mori is a more economic
> reconstruction doesn't make it unquestionable.
>
> Piotr

Hitt. marmar(r)a 'swamp' is Ok for me.

Even without it, your point has no scientific value:

One basic rule of ANY MODEL is TO KEEP IT MINIMAL:
- TO HAVE ALL THE TIME, ONLY THE MINIMAL NUMBER OF NECESSARY RULES

This is one of the first lesson that one should learn from Geometry, Physics etc....regarding what a Model is.

Marius