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

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 52831
Date: 2008-02-12

r > d exists in some forms of Caribbean Spanish e.g.
in Chocó, Colombia --I believe Wikipedia gives
examples

d > r exists in Sicilian e.g. "Maronna" < Madonna



--- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:33 AM
> 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
> > >
> >
> >
>



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