Red Deer in Anatolia

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/30/01 6:15:28 PM Mountain Daylight Time, X99Lynx at aol.com
writes:

> Actually what I mean to say - attempting to behave in a more rational way -
> is that if you know of any pair of terms that *clearly contrast* the fallow
> and red deer species in IE languages before Latin before @100 AD, I'd like
> to see them.

-- since it's you who is trying to overset the dictionaries, the burden of
proof is entirely on you.

Or, of course, we could slap ourselves on the forehead in sheer wonder that
Steve Long has discovered something which eluded centuries of linguists.