Re: PIE * ned- ................... was PIE * bhendh

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 68382
Date: 2012-01-19

At 11:44:19 PM on Wednesday, January 18, 2012, The Egyptian
Chronicles wrote:

> PREAMBLE: IE. reconstructions are usually the result of
> etymological analysis and research into later attested
> words. But these words are based exclusively on IE data
> while ignoring the full range of the isogloss when it
> extends into non-related languages.

Of course; anything else would be methodological nonsense.
Only someone with no understanding of historical linguistics
would suggest including words from languages not belonging
to the family.

What, exactly, are you trying to show with these random
coincidences that you keep posting?

Brian