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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Is Hittite really IE?
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In article <3fei2f$gdg@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk> donald@srd.bt.co.uk
(Donald Fisk) writes:

>ObLang: the Hittite word for water is "watar".

More importantly from an Indo-Europeanist's view, the genitive is "wetnes"--
making it one of the very small, very old class of heteroclitic nouns.  Other
nouns in this class include "liver" and "bone".
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
