The Iceman's Berries

[Rick Mc Callister]

	Could you elaborate more and give examples?

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>>And just how does a "European word" look?

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> One interesting factoid about this corpus is that it includes most of the
>roots in Pokorny with a reconstructed *a that is not traceable to an
>a-coloring laryngeal.  (Note, this is not an identifying characteristic, it is
>an observation).

>Now, my *hypothesis* about many of these words is that they are borrowings
>from a non-IE language family formerly wide-spread in northern Europe, but
>now extinct.  I wish I could figure out how to test this idea.

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>May the peace of God be with you.         sarima at friesen.net

Rick Mc Callister
W-1634
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus MS 39701