Re: Germanic 'bear'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>
> > I strongly disagree. Grassmann's Law only applies to those IE

languages

> > which have true aspirated stops in series III, so IMHO there's no
> > justification for reconstructing a "voiced aspirated" (or whatever

other

> > name you choose) series in PIE.
>
> Are you suggesting that Sanskrit voiced aspirates weren't 'breathy

voiced' or 'murmured' as in Hindi?

>

By no means. What I said is I won't reconstruct them for PIE.