The Iceman's Berries

[proto-language]

Dear Stanley and IEists:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stanley Friesen" <sarima at friesen.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 1:33 AM

> At 03:10 PM 6/14/01 -0400, JoatSimeon at aol.com wrote:

>> I-- well, a word for it would be a helpful hint.

>> We have *eiwo, and *taksos

>> *ei-wo produces cognates in Slavic, Germanic, Celtic, and (possibly)
>> Hittite.

> Unless the Hittite form belongs here, I would not reconstruct this word to
> PIE.  It looks more like a European word, like many other words shared only
> between Slavic, Germanic and Celtic.

[PCR]

And just how does a "European word" look?

What are its identifying characteristics?

Pat

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