Handfuls of Unrelated Forms

[Stefan Georg]

Someone called "Proto-Language" wrote:

>One of the reasons linguistics makes such little progress is that so-called
>"experts" are permitted tacitly by their indulgent colleagues to propose
>etymologies as totally naif as <ios>, 'arrow', from <eimi>, 'go through'.

the basic meaning of /eimi/ is "to go to or into"

One of the reasons linguistics makes such little progress is that
people with so little Greek are permitted to voice their irrelevant
opinion in specialist fora.  (FYI: Greek is the IE language with
those funny letters.)
--
Dr. Stefan Georg
Heerstrasse 7
D-53111 Bonn