Re: Allofamy, allofams

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
>
> PIE
>
> > *akWa- <> *apa- "water"
> > (and as a side remark, note
> > Chinese 'quan .. EMC kwen', "watering channels"' (with collective
> > suffix -n) in
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/44559
> > and
> > Chinese 'xù EMC xwik "water channel, city moat"' in
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/43973
> > and now we have outrageously connected *k^ank- "circle"
> > with *akWa- (which must have meant some type of
> > "artificial water" for there to be a need for the word to be
> > loaned, ie. it meant, at the time of loan, (circular) "moat" or a
> > semi- or quarter-circular one, if your defended area was in a fork
> > between rivers, cf the centre of Hamburg (there was that
> > word again) between the rivers Alster and Elbe.)
> >
>
> Also, one shouldn't forget that since, as we all know, the earth is
> flat, the continent on which we all live is surrounded by akWa which
> is called so because the Big Anguilla lives in it. That's why PIE
> snakes are round, *(kW)ang-.
>

http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/reviews/hock.html

"
The word Ganga itself has long been given an Austro-Asiatic etymology,
esp. linking it with southern Chinese kang/kiang/jiang, supposedly
also an Austro-Asiatic loan. The latter etymology has recently been
abandoned, with the pertinent proto-Austro-Asiatic root being
reconstructed as *krang and the Chinese word having a separate
Sino-Tibetan origin (vide Zhang Hongming: "Chinese etyma for river",
Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Berkeley, Jan. 1998, p.1-47). Witzel
now proposes to explain Ganga as "a folk etymology for Munda *gand"
(p.388), meaning "river", a general meaning it still has in some IA
languages. The folk etymology would be a reduplication of the root
*gam/ga, "moving-moving", "swiftly flowing".
"

On the missing -r- that caused the etymology to be split up, this
might heal it:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/45782
Note the ge1 OC *(A)k-lak > MC kak and OC *(A)kr-lak > MC kæk
"hind-leg, haunch", cf shank, words for "joint; bend".

So, now we might have connection China-India-Europe.


Torsten