Re: Why do Pokorny's roots for water have an "a" in front?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Bhrihskwobhloukstroy
<bhrihstlobhrouzghdhroy@...> wrote:

>
> Let's leave apart non linguistic consideration and let's concentrate
> on linguistic arguments: the crucial point is how to judge anything
> that isn't universally accepted as PIE heritage (Tavi doesn't accept
> PIE reconstructions and his rejection is even more radical than what
> he states, because he operates with different - if any - soundlaws, so
> his theory is outside the scope of this discussion).
>

I think what you call "PIE" isn't real language but a rather complex
structure, somewhat alike to a matryoshka doll, so to speak. In
practical grounds, we've got *several* "PIEs", each one with its own
sound correspondences.