Re: PIE six and seven: questions

As a general principle, differences in undoubtedly reconstructed PIE
proto-forms should reflect Pre-PIE (say, 'Nostratic' or the like)
diffractions secondarily converging into PIE allotropic variants

2013/11/11, Joao S. Lopes <josimo70@...>:

> 1) PIE *swek^s. How to explain the anomalies and different forms? Why
> *swek^s /*sek^s/ *wek^s/*k^swek^s/*uk^s? Why Sanskrit s.as., instead of
> expected *saks.- or *svaks, ? What is it relationship to Semitic shish-?
> *swek^s- > *sek^s after influence of *septm sounds plausible.
>
> 2) PIE *septm . It's obviously related to Semitic *sabatum, but... where did
> the contact occur? Do similar vocalism in *septm *dek^mt *h1newn point to an
> analogous formation?
>
> Joao S. Lopes
> Rio, Brazil
>