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

Pavel Iosad scripsit:

> > Traditionally the German name for IE was Indogermanisch,
> > although from a
> > purely geographical standpoint Indokeltisch would have been
> > more like it.
>
> Umm, Iceland? ;-)
That settlement happened in historic times: you wouldn't want to say
that Germanic is the most easterly branch just because there are some
millions of native English speakers in the high east longitudes.
As for Tocharian, it wasn't known at the time.

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