Re: How does Armenian fit into the Indo-European family?

The change from *dva to _erk_ is perfectly regular.

In what way? I see no regularity here. It might be regular. But the
fact is Anatolian parallels are much closer. I wonder if this somehow
sets Armenian aside from other IE languages.

I leave it as an exercise for the reader to discover why Zeitschrift
fuer verglaeichende Sprachforschung is abbreviated "KZ."

That's a hell of an excersise! Thank you very much! :-) :-)
Peter T. Daniels wrote:
On Mar 10, 7:46 am, "Darkstar" <darkstar...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, everyone! Long time no see.

How in the world is Armenian supposed to fit into the IE family?
Cf. /mek/ -*/oynos/, /yerku/ - */duwo/, /yerek/ -*/treyes/. Doesn't it
seem a little too far-fetched? Many Armenian words are so different
they don't even sound like IE.
What's that stuff about comparing Armenian to the Hellenic group? Are
there any other theories concerning its origin?

The change from *dva to _erk_ is perfectly regular.

In what way? I see no regularity here. Even if it's regular, the fact
is Anatolian parallels are much closer. I wonder if this somehow sets
Armenian aside from other IE languages.

Armenian was assumed to be an Indo-Iranian language until H.
Huebschmann cast out the loanwords and discovered the correspondences
that set it apart, in KZ NS 3 (1875).

I leave it as an exercise for the reader to discover why Zeitschrift
fuer verglaeichende Sprachforschung is abbreviated "KZ."

The change from *dva to _erk_ is perfectly regular.

That's a hell of an excersise! Thank you very much! :-) :-)

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