Semantic alternatives (was Re: Dating the final IE unity, in particular the word for "horse")

[Robert Whiting]

At 10:43 AM 3/28/00 +0530, Gábor Sándi wrote:

>Suppose the English word didn't exist: what would the Germans have called
>"television"? There are not that many semantic alternatives to "Fernsehen",
>are there?

There are lots and lots of semantic alternatives for just about
everything.  That's what makes a thesaurus so big.  It's also what makes
it possible for Ruhlen to reconstruct "Proto-World".  It's also what makes
crossword puzzles both possible and entertaining.

Bob Whiting
whiting at cc.helsinki.fi