[Ads-l] How to say "figure"
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Jun 27 21:26:53 UTC 2020
> Indo-European
Speaking of Indo-European languages, have you noted Tom's ethnicity, as
revealed by his surname?
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 4:25 PM W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Reminds me of the Indo-European tendency to shift marked palatovelars to
> unmarked plain velars, for some dialects (centum, I think). According to
> Gamkrelidze & Ivanov, IIRC.
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