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

John Cowan sikyal:

> This "Indo-Hittite hypothesis" has been around a long time, possibly as
> far back as the discovery that Hittite was IE-related.  I thought it more
> or less died out in the 1940s, and I haven't heard of any new evidence.
What do you mean by "Indo-Hittite hypothesis" ? If you mean the fact that
Hittite is related to IE, then my impression (from reading current
articles) is that the theory is alive and well, and has become accepted
fact. If you mean the re-drawing of IE trees to split immediately to
Proto-Hittite and Proto-Everything-Else, then I agree that the theory
isn't current. My current understanding is that Hittite and
otherwise-reconstructible PIE are more or less sister languages, descended
from a common ancestor that can't be reliably reconstructed.

> I've always wondered what it was like to be Hrozny, staring at a cuneiform
> text, seeing "nu BREAD-an ezzateni, watar-ma ekuteni" (where "BREAD" is a
> known Sumerian ideograph) and suddenly intuiting that it meant something
> like "now eat bread and drink water", not only IE but almost Germanic!
Every word there is clear to me except "ekuteni" - what's the cognate?


Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
http://students.washington.edu/jaspax/
http://students.washington.edu/jaspax/blog

Jesus asked them, "Who do you say that I am?"

And they answered, "You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground
of our being, the kerygma in which we find the ultimate meaning of our
interpersonal relationship."

And Jesus said, "What?"

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