[tied] Re: "Will the 'real' linguist please stand up?"

From: S.Kalyanaraman
Message: 19005
Date: 2003-02-22

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "S.Kalyanaraman <kalyan97@...>"
<kalyan97@...> wrote:> Sanskrit:
>
> pala_li 'a heap of flesh'

On pig and leaf.

I find the following entries in Nahali vocabulary:

Nahali coggom, cogum, jogom 'pig, swine'; Mundari cakob 'to eat
making a sound as pigs when eating'

cokob 'leaf of a tree' Kurku, Santali, Mundari sakom 'leaf'

This finds a parallel in the words: pala, 'flesh'; pala, 'leaf':

pala 'leaf'; Skt. pallava 'sprout, bud', Santali palha 'leaf, get
leaves'

pala 'flesh, meat' (Ya_jn~avalkya); Lat. palea; Fr. paille, Lith.
pelai.