Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *gWiH3w-

I resist equations like *r > *d/t or vice versa because it opens Pandora's
box to all kinds of less productive intellectual hapax legomena (not really
but you get the idea).

Mere semantic similarity of one or two samples would _not_ convince me it
would have to be many, many for me to give up my ingrained defense reaction
to idle speculation.


Patrick

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Subject: Re: [tied] Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *gWiH3w-


> I had written this at the bottom
> I put it at the beginning
> MAybe, you haven't seen it.
> =======
>
> If you search Starostin's dravidian,
> *ar is rice
> war is supposed to be a loanword form
> Austronesian.
>
> Maybe ar is related to ?at?
> Egyptian ?_t
> Latin ad-or etc
>
> Arnaud
> ==================
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rick McCallister
>
> So then. What's this Dravidian *warinci?
> Is ar-isi a folk etymology?
>
> --- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:
>
> > Dravidan *ar- means simply 'white'; add -*si, 'seed'
> > with a combining form
> > *ar-i- and voilá! (a)ris(i).
> >
> >
> > Patrick
> >
>
>