Ockham's Razor

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/28/01 4:52:51 AM Mountain Daylight Time, X99Lynx at aol.com
writes:

> So far, you have presented no facts that show any distinction between the two
> types of deer in early IE languages.

-- since the word means "red deer" specifically in a number of IE languages,
we may therefore assign that meaning to the PIE form.

That's the general rule.  Are you rewriting linguistic methodology again
today?

> Show me specifically in any Classical Greek texts where the distinction is
> made between red deer and fallow deer.

-- Hesychius.