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Formerly known as Drydic.

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Tha cvastam émi cvastam santham amal phelsa. -- Friedrich Schiller
ESTAR-3SG:P human-OBJ only human-OBJ true-OBJ REL-LOC play-3SG:A

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The conlanger formerly known as “the conlanger formerly known as Pole, the”.

If we don't study the mistakes of the future we're doomed to repeat them for the first time.

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...brought to you by the Weeping Elf
Tha cvastam émi cvastam santham amal phelsa. -- Friedrich Schiller
ESTAR-3SG:P human-OBJ only human-OBJ true-OBJ REL-LOC play-3SG:A

So, where does PIE ablaut come from then, in your speculative PIE?

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Tha cvastam émi cvastam santham amal phelsa. -- Friedrich Schiller
ESTAR-3SG:P human-OBJ only human-OBJ true-OBJ REL-LOC play-3SG:A

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

What about *gʰelunehₐ-, meaning 'lip'?

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But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!

I can't help wondering what actual professional linguists would make of this sort of discussion. It feels like we're doing someone else's work for them.

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Non fidendus est crocodilus quis posteriorem dentem acerbum conquetur.

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...brought to you by the Weeping Elf
Tha cvastam émi cvastam santham amal phelsa. -- Friedrich Schiller
ESTAR-3SG:P human-OBJ only human-OBJ true-OBJ REL-LOC play-3SG:A

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The conlanger formerly known as “the conlanger formerly known as Pole, the”.

If we don't study the mistakes of the future we're doomed to repeat them for the first time.

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...brought to you by the Weeping Elf
Tha cvastam émi cvastam santham amal phelsa. -- Friedrich Schiller
ESTAR-3SG:P human-OBJ only human-OBJ true-OBJ REL-LOC play-3SG:A

I do know that 'stand' is a relic of it in Germanic. Only one I can think of, though.

I don't know about frequency, but it's also assumed to occur in Greek, Sanskrit, Hittite, etc.
Just looking at Beekes, he mentions it explicitly for Greek "denamai", presumably from *deu2, Latin "nanciscor" vs Sanskrit 'nás'ati', Hittite "s'arnink" (vs Latin "sarcio"), Sanskrit "yunákti" (from *yugóm, 'yoke'), among others. And of course there are the Hittite productive (?) -nu- causative class, which are generally analysed as being from a nasal 'infix' plus a -u suffix.

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But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!

Is there any reason why *e *o couldn't have been [æ ɔ] or so? That would resolve the problem of there being no /a/ (Seri has /æ ɑ i o/) and answer the question of why so many IE langs have low vowel mergers of some sort.

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Siöö jandeng raiglin zåbei tandiüłåd;
nää džunnfin kukuch vklaivei sivei tåd.
Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei.

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The Conlanger Formerly Known As Aiďos

What are the main objections to Szemerényi's reconstruction of PIE with one laryngeal /h/, five full vowels, and voiceless aspirates?

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Non fidendus est crocodilus quis posteriorem dentem acerbum conquetur.