Re: Evidence for Nostratic? (was Re: Proto-Uralic?)

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 14:21:45 -0600, Muke Tever <muke@...> wrote:

>How about *septm which is also accented on its syllabic consonant?
OK, something has to give here.  PIE, as currently reconstructed, is a
mess.  It's like a chimera -- some kind of outrageous form that could never
have actually existed.  There's just no way to make sense of it all as it
is right now, therefore the reconstructions must be (partially) incorrect.

I'm particularly frustrated with "laryngeals" popping up in every other PIE
reconstructed word (or so it seems).  I think PIE-ists are just using those
when they Really Don't Know what the correct form is.  But maybe I'm wrong
(once again, lol).

- Rob

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