When a Parent Becomes a Daughter

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>X99Lynx at aol.com writes:

>So we get back to why one way of looking at it is THE RIGHT WAY and the other
>is not.

-- because one is accurate, and one is not.

>My question was something like - could Anatolian, after say innovating away
>from "narrow PIE", borrow back features that it had lost?

-- no.

>I was looking for borrowings that imitated genetics.   E.g., Mencken noted
>that after abandoning the "King's English", Americans rediscovered and
adopted it.

-- what exactly do you mean by this?

>E.g., -if Slavic loaned the word for wheel from Greek - or vice versa -
could we mistake it as being a gift to both from the reified parent - PIE?

-- no.  The sound-changes would reveal the date of the borrowing.