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  • Nikiratos: Drama se treis praxeis (Nikiratos: A three-act play).

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • Ok a wrapup, Joey, under six names and some no names, treis to make foolish, nasty, untrue, personal attacks against someone he thinks he knows, but never answers the questions raised.

    Eric Ferguson Kick Off Today 2007

  • So in theory, I'd then expect *wādiʕ- “knowing” and this would be one option to explain the PIE root, if correctly formed that is, since PSem *ā appears to correlate with PIE *ei also in the equation of PSem *θalāθi = PIE *treis “three”.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • This then would imply that *ei in PIE *treis "three", if indeed from the root PSem *θalāθ-, is specifically from the unmimated genitive form *θalāθi.

    What do I "know"? 2008

  • There may also be a way around explaining the diphthong *ei in PIE by appeal with the example of *treis = Sem *θalāθ- where a long Semitic vowel appears to be reinterpreted as Mid IE *ei because MIE didn't have long vowels yet, as I theorize.

    A list of possible Proto-Semitic loanwords in PIE 2008

  • Beware too however that *-s is sometimes the remnant of plural *-es, as in the accusative plural *-ns and *treis "3".

    The early Indo-European case system and definiteness 2008

  • August 19, 2008 at 3:09 am sew dats wai mai tummeh feelz awl weerd wen ai treis absinthe!

    Send me to da laydee - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • So in theory, I'd then expect *wādiʕ- “knowing” and this would be one option to explain the PIE root, if correctly formed that is, since PSem *ā appears to correlate with PIE *ei also in the equation of PSem *θalāθi = PIE *treis “three”.

    What do I "know"? 2008

  • Now on that note, I would like to shamelessly propose my following theory for discussion that I've been developing for years: wordMIE (PIE)Semitic'three'*tareisa (*treis)*θalāθu'six'

    "Mid Indo-European", Semitic and Neolithic numerals 2007

  • Now on that note, I would like to shamelessly propose my following theory for discussion that I've been developing for years: wordMIE (PIE)Semitic'three'*tareisa (*treis)*θalāθu'six'

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

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