Loaded "HOW LIKELY" questions

[Richard M. Alderson III]

On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Steve Long (X99Lynx at aol.com) wrote:

> As has been pointed out many, many, many times on this list, the Luwian
> 'asuwa' looks to be a IIr or Mitanni-Aryan borrowing, unless you assume some
> kind of special Luwian satemization that could yield *-kw > sw.

Interestingly enough, there were references to Luwian (and Southern = Western
Anatolian in general) as "satem" at the Greater Anatolia colloquium, though
others did not necessarily accept this characterization--but the assibilation
of *k' was not disputed.

								Rich Alderson