[tied] Re: pre-Nostratic *male[:]k?xa, 'milk (vb.)'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>
> At 10:21:42 AM on Sunday, February 12, 2006, Daniel J.
> Milton wrote:
>
> > Despised as Ruhlen may be by at least some Cybalisters,
> > one of his better-looking roots is "MALIQ'A "to suck(le),
> > nurse, breast", with exemplars from (besides the IE and AA
> > of Patrick's posting) Uralic, Dravidian, Eskimo-Aleut,
> > Caucasian and Amerind. Dan
>
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/14477>
>
> Brian

Of the 35 most basic word vocabulary PIE and OC have 23% cognates.
That is too many for a chance occurence.

M. kelkar