Re: OE *picga

--- In cybalist@..., Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: tgpedersen
> To: cybalist@...
> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 1:05 PM
> Subject: [tied] Re: OE *picga
>
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> > Considering that Manansal's/my list contains less than 100 roots

of coincidence, isn't it surprising how much mileage I can get out of
it? Every time a central idea in IE comes up I can find a match for
it on the list? Unless one wants to consider the alternative: there
was contact?

>
> Finding root equations is easy. I've just perused a list of about

100 Malgasy words and found several intriguing matches between
Malagasy and Russian. Here are the most suggestive ones:

>
> Mal. vorona 'bird' : Russ. vorona 'crow'
> Mal. volo 'hair', Russ volos 'hair'
> Mal. riaka 'current', Russ. r'eka 'river'
> Mal. zato 'hundred', Russ. sto 'hundred'
> Mal. fasika 'sand' : Russ. p'esok 'sand'
> Mal. feno 'full' : Russ. polno 'full'
> Mal. eto 'here' : Russ. eto 'this'
>
> Piotr

Fun, isn't it? Now try it with Navaho.

Torsten