Re: Kuhn's ar-/ur-language

From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 62950
Date: 2009-02-09

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> Uralic is *amt "horn"
> It's unclear what Ostyak aN&t is doing here.
> Probably another word.
> A.
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This is related to PNC *?_@... 'joint, bone' (?_ stands for an epiglottal
stop), Basque adar 'horn'.

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HmHm
Basque looks nice.
I suppose M. Morvan would welcome one more Siberian connection with Basque.
A.
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BTW, Arnaud, I've got Ernout-Meillet in my hands and it reads mi:luus with
LONG i:.
So either you were lying or else you've got a poor vision.

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L'un n'empĂȘche pas l'autre, n'est-ce pas ?

You must have a poor vision or you have no idea what the latinistic
conventions are :
bottom of page 582 : mi:les long i with straight line
bottom of page 583 : miluus short i with curved line
It reads miluus with a short i.
Ernoult-Meillet does not mention any long i:

but
On the yellow page 836 of my old Latin dictionary,
I can see :
milvius Ovide, milvus Cicero, mi:lvus Plautus, Phaeder, i. milan.

A.


I just discovered Latin circus (formerly) 'circle' has a Vasco-Caucasian
etymology from PNC *gi:rgwV 'circle, round'.
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Don't be silly,
This root went round the world ten times long before Magellan or CocaCola
Brand ever tried.
Cf. Sumerian girgal and Chinese gun3
A.