Re: House and City

--- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:
> >
> > Torsten:
> > >BTW, I remember a remark somewhere to the effect that early
> > >Mediterranean languages (Eteo-Cypriot?) show a vacillation r/n/l,
> > >which would account for the r/l part. So do some Austronesian
> > >languages.
> >
> > So does Mandarin and Cantonese. So what?
> >
> > - gLeN
> >
> >
> If I claim that the *b/p-r/l rump/dump/lump is a Wanderwort from
> Sundaland that ended up in the Mediterranean, then it is is

relevant

> that there is d/r/l/n vacillation in pre-IE Mediterranean and in
> Austronesian languages, and it is irrelevant that that also occurs

in

> Mandarin and Cantonese. You can do better than that, gLeN.
>
> Torsten

I'm horribly sorry. I just discovered that the original inhabitants
of Hong Kong, a boat people, are known as Tanka (cf. Hakka), mandarin
Dan Jin. Oh, my long lost cousins! So of course your remark about
Mandarin and Cantonese is relevant.

Torsten