Re: [tied] All of creation in Six and Seven

From: tgpedersen
Message: 27523
Date: 2003-11-24

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:
>
> >That's right. Before "the other IE" was influenced by Semitic.
>
> Incorrect. Hittite /s^ipta-/.

Without the mimation. Aparently a loan from some other Semitic
language.

>
>
> >quote (by you):
> >Well, there is a clear enough link between the IE feminine in *-ax
> >and the collective, imho, just like it coincidently seems to be in
Semitic
> >(areal influence?)
> >
> >Obviously that area does not include Anatolia.
>
> Really? I think it did: Tyrrhenian. It looks to me that this group
hints
> at this same feature found in IE and Semitic. Tyrrhenian would have
> been spoken in Greece and Western Anatolia for quite some time.
> Semitic and Anatolian IE loans appear in this grouping as well, as
we
> find in Etruscan.

I didn't know Etruscan had gender?

Ìn other words, the Semitic trend towards using the collective as a
feminine passes through Greece and Western Anatolia, but _on foot_?

Torsten