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Pressed Bunson wrote:Bad news is that I got rubbing alcohol on my tongue, which tasted horrible and scared the crap outta me.

Good news is that I didn't swallow any.

I had the same experience once. Since then I've been using 98% pure medical alcohol to brew shit.

Cheers! Will be looking forward to it.

This is it. The tenth declension in hBaṣvî is the last declension. It merges the genitive, ablative and benefactive on one hand and the accusative, commitative and dative cases on the other, effectively giving a four-case system; it distinguishes all three numbers though. Nouns of the tenth declensi...

So, ninth declension nouns. One more declension and they're fully covered. The ninth declension merges the genitive, dative and benefactive on one hand, and the accusative and vocative on the other; in addition to that, it merges the singular and plural numbers. Ninth declension nouns in hBaṣvî have...

Eight declension nouns in hBaṣvî end in <- xs > in the nominative. They keep all three numbers distinct, but merge the nominative and dative, and the accusative and vocative cases. An example noun of the eight declension would be < råmnîxs > "bee": Case SG DU PL NOM/DAT råmnîxs råmnîxsî råmnîẓbî GEN...

Ah, thanks for the featural breakdown. Quite useful and good to know.

Ahzoh wrote: needle in a haystack (a really hard object to find, nearly impossible to find)

Kti: <kaksīk dadrahākatai> "a citizen most generic" - for persons
Kti: <ūrkame dai'ēkke> "alike copper inside clocks" - in general

Next: "et tu Brute?"

Adam Hyllested did some fun work on Indo-Uralic . It looks quite good, but I've only skimmed it instead of reading in detail. Edit: having a more detailed look gives me the idea: it's about correspondences between Indo-European laryngeals and Uralic dorsals (generally velars), but also includes bits...

Ah, thanks. I seem to have missed that.

Yeah, I found that a bit weird, but if that is so, how do we know it's /h₄/ when the next vowel is /o/?

So, it's a laryngeal that colours both /e o/ into > /a/

Can anyone explain the laryngeal behind "*h₄órǵhis" (testicle)? It's a fourth laryngeal, which I've seen extremely rarely.

Seventh declension nouns merge the dual and plural, as well as the dative and benefactive cases. Stems of nouns of the seventh declension end in a nasal followed by the vowels < ə/a/å >. An example noun of the seventh declension is < åxrîmų̂ > "father": Case SG DU/PL NOM åxrîmų̂ åxrîməx GEN åxrîməm ...

Morrígan wrote: Also, on the subject of Colarusso, I do have this one paper More Pontic: Further Etymologies Between Indo-European and Northwest Caucasian

Brilliant. Beautiful. Not the prime example of sound, but that doesn't stop it from being beautiful.

Obviously Vytautas.

And then in five years someone brings out a coherent correspondences list between Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Kartvelian.

So, sixth declension. The sixth declension is pretty straightforward as well. It merges the dual and plural and the nominative and accusative cases, but besides that features no oddities or quirks. Nouns of the sixth declension end in <s> in the nominative. An example noun of the sixth declension is...

General bump to not let this die

I like this plenty.

Anybody have anything on the Germanic substrate?

ONE way to go would be to have a world where magic does the job of modern technology, with people commuting to work on flying carpets and watching news and soap operas on crystal balls. (I think the Magitech setting of the Amazing Engine RPG works that way, but I don't know for sure as I never got ...

The fifth declension in hBaṣvî is pretty straightforward. It includes nouns whose stems end in <- rn > and have a zero nominative. It distinguishes all three numbers, but merges the accusative and commitative. An example noun of the fifth declension would be < jûrn >: Case SG DU PL NOM jûrn jûrnix j...

Since Satemization is an areal thing, it depends on the location. Going east, you can expect /v/ as a reflex of /*w/, a merger of the velar and labiovelar rows, RUKI backing of /s/ and the transformation of palatovelars into sibilants. Since Centum languages do not share any characteristic sound cha...

/palmface

Yeah, I confused yours with Quantum's. Sorry :s

The fourth declension in hBaṣvî behaves a bit oddly: it marks the distinction between animate and inanimate nouns actively in suffixes. Animates of the fourth declension end in <- aṣ > and its inanimates end in <- ə(j)ṣ > in the nominative. It merges the dual and plural numbers, but otherwise distin...