Actually, it was *t-t-, not *t-r- in
the protolanguage, as I have explained before. The -r- results from t-voicing in
_some_ daughter languages.
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Subject: [nostratic] Re: ouralique et IE
Yes, them dry bones... There's the Sahara to contend
with.
As for the "3" *t-r- in Niger-Congo, if you are thinking of that...
Piotr tried to reduce it to a Proto-Bantu thing, but obviously it's
bigger than that. But it is not omnipresent in Niger-Congo, it occurs
in
some languages and not in others; and isn't that the situation
you'd see if
that term were borrowed?