Re: basic morphemes of a loglang
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 30, 2003, 11:26 |
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At 21:51 29.11.2003, Tommie L Powell wrote:
>I write:
>PIE (the granddaddy of Indo-European languages) had a word for
>trees with strong wood (such as oak) and a word for trees with
>flexible wood (such as beech) but no generic word for trees - right?
Maybe no such word is reconstructible from the
vocabulary of the daughter languages, but that
does not prove or disprove either way that
such a word didn't exist. However I have a
hard time believing that any language spoken
in an area where there is wood (i.e. practically
anywhere) lacks such a word.
/BP 8^)
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