Re: irregularities

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> I don't understand how one could think of the "day sky" and
> the "night sky" as two different skies, since the passage from one to another
> is slow and can be seen  (stars appear in the sky well before the sky is really
> dark). Yet it's well accepted, through reconstruction evidence (and quite
> strong for those two words) and maybe other evidence, that the Proto-Indo-
> European people thought there was two skies turning around the planet, one for
> the day and one for the night.
Oooh, that's inspired me!  The word _uabiikadis_ (literally "place of
the suns"), which I had defined as "sky" shall henceforth mean,
depending on context, either "sky" or "day sky", and a new word,
_uabiila_ (literally "place of the star(s)") shall mean "night sky".
:-)

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