Re: IE prefix "*s"

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

> 13-12-03 11:08, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > BTW I'm reading Joseph: The Destruction of Atlantis, a book nice
> > linguists shouldn't read, of course. But how come these guys from
> > purely mythic and legendary stuff arrive at the same coclusions I

did

> > using what linguistics I know: worldwide cataclysm when a star
> > disappeared in the Pleiades, beta taurid meteor shower seeming to
> > appear out of one of the horn of Taurus?
>
> Does the linguistics you know allow you to arrive at such
> conclusions?

The linguist in me is puzzled by the fact that 'septem' and 'taurus'
are both Semitic loans in IE.

> The "disappearance" (or rather variable visibility) of one or more
> of the Pleiades is not connected with any large-scale cataclysms on
> earth,

Lots of myths say otherwise. Check the net.

> and whatever happened among the Pleiades can't have caused any
> meteor showers.

The Pleiades are within the constellation of Taurus.

> What's the rhyme or reason of it all?

That's what I often ask myself. Other questions?


Torsten