My Intention with This Blog


My Intention with This Blog · Intentions and Theorems, Continued · Which Groups are not Main Ones and Why?

I intend, in the first place, to go through Pokorny, "word" after "word" (or word-root after word-root).

Each one is classified into an appropriate slot on whether it has for instance 5 main groups, like : Q-Celtic, P-Celtic, Germanic, Slavic, Indic, or rather 3 of them, like: Germanic, Greek, Indic. All words fitting the one description will go to the one post, all fitting another one will go to another post, and all of these posts will be linked to from lists of 3 group combinations, 5 group combinations and so on.

If the PIE thesis is true, it does not necessarily mean that words with all ten groups will be more frequent than words with just three groups, it could be a long time since the PIE era deleted most words from more than 7 groups, but the 3 group words would be fairly equally distributed along the 120 possible combinations of 3 groups and the 5 group words fairly equally distributed along the 252 combinations of 5 groups.

But if Germanic, Italic and Celtic systematically oppose Slavic, Baltic, Iranic and Indic, and I don't mean in phonetics, like Centum vs Satem, but in nearly all words lining up with one mega-group or the other and only a few crossing between them, one can suspect it has rather been a series of Sprachbünder which started out with one original Sprachbund - or the reverse.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Torcy
St. Ephrem the Syrian
18.VI.2022

Edessae, in Mesopotamia, sancti Ephraem, Diaconi Edesseni et Confessoris, qui, post multos labores pro Christi fide susceptos, doctrina et sanctitate conspicuus, sub Valente Imperatore quievit in Domino, et a Benedicto Papa Decimo quinto Doctor Ecclesiae universalis est declaratus.

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