Re: hunt

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> > In order to explain these alleged doublets as AA loanwords, you
> > need either two distinct branches of AA with divergent treatment of
> > Old PAA stops,

> Carleton Hodge has a list of examples of that, but I forgot in what book.

The article is available at <http://www.nostratic.ru/books/(202)The%20implications%20of%20lislakh%20for%20nostratic.pdf> .

Of course, sporadic examples are common - consider the English doublets _cage_ and _gaol_ (the second word does have a suffix), _Tyson_ and _Dyson_, and, allegedly, _plonk_ and _blank_.

Richard.