IE "Urheimat" and evidence from Uralic linguistics

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>proto-language at email.msn.com writes:

>Dangerous', an adjective, is more likely to be derived from 'wolf'
('wolflike') than >deriving a noun ('dangerous one') from an early adjective.

-- since the Germanic word for "bear" is precisely a derivative from an
adjective -- "the brown one", this argument is a little odd.

Especially since the original PIE word itself -- *h(2)rtkos -- is itself
probably a nominalized adjective (via a stress shift), from *h(2)rektes; see
Sanskrit raksas, "destruction".