Re: Swadesh Lists

From: richard.wordingham@...
Message: 432
Date: 2003-02-22

Dear Mark,
I look for Swadesh lists at www.rosettaproject.org . There are 2 lists there for Latin, but I can't view them with my home browser.

I'm rather sceptical of Swadesh lists for reconstructed languages. How do we know we have the _usual_ word for a meaning? For example, is PIE for 'red' *h1rudHro- or *h1reudH- ?

Richard.

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