"centum"/"satem" "exceptions" [was Re: Northwest IE attributes]

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>frank at uiowa.edu writes:

<< 1) what then is the standard reconstruction proposed for Skt. pu:r-, Greek
> <polis> and Baltic <pilis>? And the prototype meaning assigned to it?

-- *pelh(x), "fort, fortified place".

There's a possible cognate in Armenian -- 'k'alak', meaning "city".

>2) is this set considered a good candidate for admission to the (P)IE
>lexicon? Stated differently, does attestation in Sanskrit, Greek and Baltic
>languages suffice for a data set to be considered part of the (P)IE lexicon?

-- a dialect word of the south and east of the PIE world, at least.

There's also *uriien, 'fort', which gives Mycenaean 'rijo', promontory, and
Tocharian 'ri', 'town'.