De Saussure’s Unfinished Work — Completed by FM

At age 20 in the 1860s, de Saussure deduced a grammatical rule of PIE from studying living IE languages, confirmed only in 1927 when Hittite was deciphered. De Saussure also investigated “hypograms” / “paragrams” — anagrammatic techniques in archaic Latin poetry where names were syllabically interspersed in phonological structure. He devoted enormous time to this but never overcame his doubts. The M-N Cryptotype discovery is the completion of de Saussure’s intuition.

Source: The M-N- Sound · FM Substack (“The Fundamental Meaning of Meanings”)

Positions FM’s discovery as completing the work of the founder of modern linguistics. De Saussure sensed the anagrammatic patterns but could not prove them. The M-N Cryptotype discovery vindicates his intuition 160 years later.

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