Re: Proto-Ionians revisited

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Dan Waniek" <irismeister@...>
> wrote:
> > As a non-specialist myself, the first problem I
> > see here is that many of Mr Faucounau's proposals, including

that

> by
> > now famous 'eimion' (see some older messages here) are not found
> in
> > Frisk or Beekes. Then there always is ei)mi/, from the Attic
> > Infinitive ei)=nai. Any ideas?
>
> Do we need to obtain Faucounau's book to find out his proposed
> transliteration and translation? I couldn't find either on the
> web.

When looking for illustrations of the disk, I found a good
description at http://www.robotwisdom.com/science/phaistos/ , even
with a few of Faucounau's translations and transliterations. What's
missing to complete the picture is a table of proposed phonetic
interpretations (glyph number to syllable) and the proposed
translation.

Richard.