the Wheel and Dating PIE

[Stanley Friesen]

At 11:58 PM 1/27/00 -0500, X99Lynx at aol.com wrote:
>It does not matter if they occured otherwise.  The question is WHEN they
>occurred.  None of this dates these changes back to PIE dispersal.  The wheel
>may have been introduced BEFORE PIE *k ==> Germanic 'h' occurred BUT
>AFTER IE dispersal.

In each individual case, yes.  But by the time you add in ALL of the shared
words for late Neolithic technology found in IE languages, you have almost
all of the major sound changes represented.  This puts the origin of these
words back to a time when virtually *none* of sound changes had occurred.
This is, by definition, prior to the loss of unity.

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