Thanks for the wider context. A mischievous thought though - aren't there
any laryngeals in the IE root?

Richard

Richard.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Miguel Carrasquer" <mcv@...>


> On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:53:49 +0000, Richard Wordingham wrote:
>
> >--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "H.M. Hubey" <hubeyh@...> wrote:
> >> Well, it does not make much difference. Semitic words are like
> >reshu, rashu, etc.
> >
> >Voiceless sibliants! Slavic seems quite good at preserving voicing.
>
> Slavic raz is from *wre:g^-/*wra:g^- "to break", the Semitic word is from
> the root ra?as (Arabic) ~ ra?as^ (West Semitic) "head". The only thing
> they have in common is the /r/.