Loaded "HOW LIKELY" questions

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>X99Lynx at aol.com writes:

>What question applies if someone assumes that *kwekwos even existed in PIE
>when there's no direct evidence at all that it was ever even present in half
>of the known IE languages?

-- the general rule is that if there are cognates in more than three
otherwise unrelated and geographically widely separated branches of IE., it's
a PIE word.

Are you objecting to the existance of historical linguistics again?

Or is this a selective memory slip, as when you stated there was no reflex of
*ekwos in Anatolian?

*Kwekwlos:  reflexes in Germanic, Phrygian, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Tocharian,
Celtic, Baltic.