From: dgkilday57
Message: 70958
Date: 2013-02-19
>Then what is _parkat.i:_ f. 'Ficus infectoria' doing in Sanskrit?
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Bhrihskwobhloukstroy <bhrihstlobhrouzghdhroy@> wrote:
> >
> > This is wonderful for an Indo-European list: onomatopoetics instead of
> > etymology, while as for *perkwu-s one likes a chain of loans and the
> > other one detects optional rules...
> >
> In my (not humble) opinion, the word 'oak' is a substrate loanword from some language spoken in Paleolithic Europe.
>