From: Christopher Straughn
Message: 7212
Date: 2001-04-25
>I took it for granted that until a few centuries AD the Turkic peoplesHas to be coincidence. Most (probably all) Turkic languages have some sort
>lived way far to the east in Central Asia totally out of reach and
>linguistic contact and consideration by Europeans. But in a Turkish
>grammar I was surprised to find Turkish cases `-da' and `-dan' with
>similar meanings to the Classical Greek suffixes in `oikothi' = "at
>house" and `oikothen' = "from house". Is this a coincidence, or what?