... Proto-World is normally taken to be the most recent common ancestor (if one exists) of all *known* language. I pointed this out before. [..] ... It is, by...
... Ok, so what you're saying is that the language families usually considered independent of IE, eg. Uralic, Semitic, Austronesian, Basque, Kartvelian,...
... More specifically, they are Indo-Iranian, which is even more revolutionary. It seems to mean that, e.g. Sanskrit is more closely related to Navajo than it...
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... I don't agree with your definition of PW. Even if it were true, and a supposed PW reconstructed correctly using sound methodology, the discovery of a...
... Yes. Regular correspondences exist, but are unusual. They include, for example, Iranian changes of s > x > G > N (often > n) in many positions, and nw >...
... Sheesh. 'True' is not a predicate applicable to definitions. ... So? The same is true mutatis mutandis of any other proto-language. ... Obviously. So...
... PIE would be redefined if a new IE language were discovered, not if a non-IE were. PW would be changed by any. ... The reconstruction of PIE isn't...
... I don't agree, and have never heard of any system in which definitions can't be described as "true" or "false". I've seen many uses of "true definitions"...
... (a) A definition can never be "true" or "false". Only statements can be "true" or "false", when they are compared with the definitions. (b) Only simple...
... Your ignorance doesn't change the facts. ... Only if you've been reading the work of very sloppy (or very ignorant) writers: any competent philosopher or...
At 11:44:18 AM on Saturday, January 3, 2009, tgpedersen ... I suspect that that should be understood as '(land) between (two) rivers', with <medel> giving...
... "Between" is SW. mellan, Da. (i)mellem, from dat.pl. of ODa męthal "middle", cf ON (i) millum. Cf. the three westernmost boroughs (kųbstęder) on Fyn,...
At 4:36:02 PM on Saturday, January 3, 2009, tgpedersen wrote: [...] ... In fact ON also has <mešal> 'among, between'; it takes the genitive. It also has...
I've been thinking about Baldr lately. Where did the name come from? What type of god was he? I've been poking around on the Internet and it seems that there...
... Darkness and mistletoe are both characteristic of winter, so I'd look at words for "bright, bold, bald (in the archaic sense of 'white', i.e. 'bald...
... From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> Now if that *pa:d thing (note the long vowel) in Swedish meant something like "low-lying land" (and there are...
I have a couple hunches regarding the etymology of the modern Farsi compound verb "faraamush kardan". I'd like the list's opinion as to which they consider...
... If you want to define every loan in Germanic with initial p- as NWB, the word loses its meaning. ... Last I was there, the Netherlands were mostly on the...
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