Re: "Wife" (was: Homosexuality etc.)

Quoting Joe <joe@...>:

> > Hm, according to an old Britannica entry laying around on my HD,
> Indic
> isn't
> > even a branch but a subbranch of Indo-Iranian ... Anyways, are there
> > differences between the Indic languages comparable to those between,
> say,
> > Germanic and Greek? I would put to much weight to those numbers of
> languages -
> > most of those Indic ones are only dialects of, presumeably, Hindi on
> the
> Army-
> > and-Navy test anyway!
> >
> > > Traditionally the German name for IE was Indogermanisch, although
> from
> > > a
> > > purely geographical standpoint Indokeltisch would have been more
> like
> > > it.
> >
> > The idea was to have the easternmost and westermost branches indicated
> in
> the
> > name, wasn't it? I'm then severly tempted to suggest "Slavogermanic",
> 'cos
> of
> > Chukchia and Alaska ...
>
> But the native languages of Chukchia and Alaska are Chukotko-Kamchatkan
> and
> Eskimo-Aleut, respectively.
I was trying to be funny, but I don't quite see the relevance of this ... ?
The Baltic Sea area had and India has pre-IE populations too.

                                                       Andreas