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Re:The word “lox” hasn't changed in sound or meaning in 8k y... by housecarpenter on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @08:45AM (#19918815)
Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s 'tongue' was feminine, hence why all the languages mentioned in this subthread (except Hebrew) have the word for 'tongue' feminine.
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Re:The word “lox” hasn't changed in sound or meaning in 8k y... by posterboy on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @04:24PM (#19923369)
If the reconstruction is feminine because of the evidence in the daughter languages, you are presenting a circular argument. Maybe there are more reasons for the reconstruction that I don't know, just as I don't know why the PIE root should have been female, which would be much more interesting.
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