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From: svm@kozmix.xs4all.nl (Sander van Malssen)
Subject: Re: Is Hittite really IE?
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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 03:11:23 GMT
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alderson@netcom.com writes:
> 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".

And don't forget that most rarest beast of all -- the only l/n stem:
sol/sun. Avestan still has (@=schwa) N.sg hvar:@, G.sg xv:@ng (with r <
l)... How would you reconstruct this word for PIE?

Sander
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Sander van Malssen
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