On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 18:04:39 -0500, "proto-language"
<proto-language@...> wrote:

>> >[PRp]
>> >I see no examples that would make us take this proposal seriously.
>>
>> *dheh1- ~ Lat. fac-, Grk. the:k-, for instance.
>
>[PCR]
>Is that your only example?

No. And it's not mine. As I said, Martinet and others have written
extensively about laryngeal hardenings.

>[PCR]
>Instrumental -t relates to a very well-distributed formant (Nostratic *-t?a), which usually shows up as -d, and is basically a lative.
>
>//Altaic -de/a, locative; Uralic -t (Vogul), locative; Sumerian -da, locative; Japanese de,
>'at/in/on (the hand of); by means of (through the hand of)'.//
>
>to name just a few reflexes.

You forgot PIE *-od, ablative. The instrumental in *-et (*-eh1) is
something entirely different.

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