From: Torsten
Message: 65918
Date: 2010-03-03
>Or more likely UEW means this one
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Which entails that PIE had
> > > > 1. bagn- "swamp"
> > > > 2. pan- "swamp"
> > > > Are you sure that holds up?
> > >
> > > Why not? You've seen it's quite possible for a language to
> > > simultaneously have words such as _deep_, _dive_, _dip_ and so
> > > on.
> > >
> > > There's no law that states that proto-languages have to have
> > > been some sort of pristine creations free of irregularities,
> > > lexical substrates and so on forth. The available methods of
> > > reconstruction probably make them usually seem more regular
> > > they actually were.
> > >
> >
> > I think I'll add
> > UEW
> > 'pan,ka 3 'eine Art Pilz (Fliegenpilz; Agarius muscarius), aus
> > dem Narkotikum hergestellt wird' FU
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_regalis
>
> Don't try this at home. Experimental semantics can be taken too
> far. Note the distribution (carried?).