Re: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

Trask brought that etymology up a few times on
postings. If it's not in H o Bq, then I'd imagine it's
in his Basque etymological dictionary and probably in
Mitxelena as well.

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, crocus does mean saffron and saffron is
> baby-shit
> > yellow. See Trask
> >
> Where? Google on 'horotz' and 'trask' comes back
> empty, it's not in
> 'The History of Basque'. and the closest thing
> Löpelmann has is
> 'horots. schaumig. § kontrah. aus harrapotsu (s.
> unter harrapo 1).'
>
>
> Torsten
>
>
>

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