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


Darkstar wrote:
phoglund@xxxxxx wrote:
Darkstar 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.

Certainly, because they have been borrowed from Urartian or some other
little-known ancient language.

That's the same as stating they've been borrowed from God knows where.

That is the idea, yes. However, even Proto-Germanic includes AFAIK a
rather high percentage of words which cannot be traced back to IE. The
explanation is that they have been borrowed from the language of the
Megalithgräberkultur, which is also responsible for the initial-
syllable accentuation in Proto-Germanic.

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