Fw: Re: [tied] 7-minute ITCH

From: tgpedersen
Message: 52427
Date: 2008-02-07

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:
>
>
> > The agriculture words, cf
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/42285
> > and the word for grinding *mVl- Arnoud pointed out are
> > suspiciously similar, compared to the remaining vocabulary. Also
> > bear in mind that agriculture did not spread instantaneously from
> > its point of origin, in Northern Europe, eg., it started several
> > thousand years later.
> >
> > Torsten
> >
> > ==============
> > The word *only one*
> > referred to in
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/42285
> > is just the cognate to Latin far-ina < *bh_r.
> >

And?

> > And I still cannot see the link between an "agriculture" word
> > and anything related to food and food preparation.

You see no connection between agriculture and food?


> > What is the meaning of :
> > agriculture did not spread instantaneously from its point of
> > origin, in Northern Europe, eg., it started several thousand years
> > later.
> >
> > Looks very unclear.

What is it you don't understand?


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