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

John Atkinson pravi:

Conclusion: The only roots really required are *som, with, together, and *kom, towards (also with). We can, if we want to, forget about *k^om and *ksun.

This is interesting. It seems then that these two roots were reduced to inital consonant only in Slovene... s(z) - with (s hišo, z mizo - with house, table) and k(h) - towards (k hiši, h kravi - toward the house, the cow).

Hočete kavo s smetano ali brez? (Do you want your coffee with cream or without?) Z. ;)



> Sanskrit <sam>, with, is regular from either *k^om or *som.
> Sanskrit <kam>, towards, must come from *ko(m)

Do you know a word in Sanskrit with 'kam' prefix meaning towards? I can't find any... (words with 'sam' are well known, there are many)
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