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From: alderson@netcom16.netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Altaic words
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Further to two-stem "wh-words":  Both Greek and Sanskrit show *relatives* and
*indefinites* from the stem *yo-, while only *interrogatives* show reflexes of
*k{^w}-.
-- 
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_
