Re: Anser (was: swallow vs. nighingale)

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 50721
Date: 2007-12-06

I am afraid not,
whatever you label "sino-tibetan"
Yenissei is just a (forgotten and overlooked) branch of Indo-European,
They are the only languages 2 000 miles around
that have masculine, feminine and neutral gender,
Ket and Kot are not close relative of Tibetan and Chinese.
They belong to PIE,
And they originate in Anatolia, just like the rest of PIE.
 
Starostin's analyses are worth nothing.
Requiescat in pace.
 
Arnaud
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Rick McCallister
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [tied] Anser (was: swallow vs. nighingale)

And the southern end of the Yenessei is the original
home of Ket et al. So are you linking Sino-Tibetan &
Uralic to Yenesseian?

--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@ wanadoo.fr>
wrote:

> Arnaud to Torsten,
>
> One reference is interesting as far as I am
> concerned :
>
http://tech. groups.yahoo. com/group/ cybalist/ message/42758
>
> I disagree with the idea that SiChuan is the
> homeland of Tibeto-Birman,
> for at least two reasons :
> 1. I do not believe Tibeto-Birman is a legitimate
> family,
> 2. Next, I think Uralic is the closest parent to
> Tibetan and Chinese,
> even though this statement requires documentation.
> I believe Tibetan and Uralic originate in the
> southern basin of Ob and Ienissei Rivers.
>
> I have previously discussed the word "egg" :
> Chinese dan4 < *tox-an
> Micro-burmese *tuj < *tox
> Compare Hungarian toj-ash "egg" < *tox
>
> Arnaud
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: tgpedersen
> To: cybalist@... s.com
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 12:54 PM
> Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Anser
> (was: swallow vs. nighingale)
>
>
> --- In cybalist@... s.com, "fournet.arnaud"
> <fournet.arnaud@ ...>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: tgpedersen
> > To: cybalist@... s.com
> > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 1:29 AM
> > Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Anser
> (was: swallow vs.
> nighingale)
> >
> >
> >
> > How do you know that?
> >
> > Myself, I think there was some kind of sea-born
> trade with SEAsia
> > going on them, possibly around Africa, which
> accounts for these words
> > as loanwords from SEAsia.
> >
> > You will enjoy these:
> > http://www.angelfir e.com/rant/ tgpedersen/ Op.html
> >
> http://www.angelfir e.com/rant/ tgpedersen/ Opr.html
> >
> > Torsten
> > =========
> >
> > A.F :
> >
> > I agree some words in PAA are loanwords from SE
> Asia,
> > especially : kl_b "dog"
> > But I do not think *p_l is a loanword from SE
> Asia.
> > I was disappointed by your references : nothing
> about "full"
> > I suppose something went wrong when giving the
> references.
>
> There are a few references in the bottom. But
> you're right, here is
> the real reference:
> http://www.angelfir e.com/rant/ tgpedersen/ pl.html
>
> The whole area of 'manifestations' of *p-l- etc
> suffers from what I
> unsavourily referred to as the spittoon problem
>
>
http://tech. groups.yahoo. com/group/ cybalist/ message/8719
>
> which is why the way I've divided up the whole
> field into roots is
> somewhat arbitrary, here's another part of it:
> http://www.angelfir e.com/rant/ tgpedersen/ bHrl.html
>
> On the origin of these terms, this is relevants:
>
>
http://tech. groups.yahoo. com/group/ cybalist/ message/45555
> What I think happened is that some type of early
> geometry, a theory of
> weights and measures, was developed in China or
> environs (as much as
> early agriculture needed, with fixed boundaries
> between pieces of
> land), and that it was exported, and with it the
> various words.
> You might want to read the article I refer to. It
> is
> Matisoff, James A.:
> 1988. "Universal semantics and allofamic
> identification -- two
> Sino-Tibetan case-studies: STRAIGHT / FLAT / FULL
> and PROPERTY /
> LIVESTOCK / TALENT."
> In Akihiro Sato, ed.,
> Languages and History in East Asia, pp. 3-14.
> Kyoto: Shokado.
>
> Also
>
>
http://tech. groups.yahoo. com/group/ cybalist/ message/42758
>
>
http://tech. groups.yahoo. com/group/ cybalist/ message/43973
>
> Torsten
>
>
>
>

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