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It is probably not a substrate word, but more likely coming from "dead" water, as in not a moving river.
by kleton 17d ago
It is probably not a substrate word, but more likely coming from "dead" water, as in not a moving river.
- TFNA 17d agoThis is a well-established field where you can read experts discussing the word in depth, including its derivational properties and ablaut behavior. This isn't something where an HN's armchair guess is worth anything, just like when laypeople use HN threads on quantum theory for their own inane ideas.
- kleton 17d agoCarl Darling Buck (A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages) and Julius Pokorny (Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch) are just a few of the philologists who have posited this "dead water" hypothesis
- TFNA 17d agoNeither Buck nor Pokorny are regarded today as worth citing except for historiographical reasons. Their work is obsolete by many decades.
- derriz 17d agoCould you recommend a book or reading material that reflects recent developments in PIE research? I have a few books but they’re quite old.
- Affric 15d agoIt's funny how you cited sources and rather than be given information you were just told that you were very wrong without any attempt to distill knowledge.
- TFNA 14d agoFor someone in the field, teaching is work, while telling people they are wrong isn't. Unless you are paying good money, you don't have a right to the former instead of the latter. In any event, the GP (note: not the same as the OP) could just look for himself on the shadow libraries, which now have pretty much everything.