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> > from Møller: Vergleichendes indogermanisch-semitisches Wörterbuch
>
> What kind of opinion can I have of a long list of miscellaneous
> lookalikes, some of which certainly form cognate sets while others
> probably don't? Show me a detailed analysis of one of these

proposed

> relationships and I will tell you what I think of it.

Show me a list of those proposed cognate sets you think aren't and I
will oblige you.

>Note, by the way,
> that the connections proposed Møller are at a pre-PIE level, which

means

> that he also regarded the word as inherited in Germanic.

As I have mentioned some scores of times I think those sets Møller
thinks are cognates are actually loans.


Torsten