Re: Substrate language which contributed sarSapa to Indo

From: raviaircel
Message: 71510
Date: 2013-11-06

In Akkadian also, the word kasû   [  ]  means mustard only.



---In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, <kalyan97@...> wrote:

kacavam (Tamil) `mustard'.  *$Sa. , ~ , Mu., Ho , H. , O. , Sk. .  %8642.  #8562. `mustard'.  *$Sa. , ~ , Mu., Ho , H. , O. , Sk. .  %8643.  #8563. (Munda etyma)

soris>(Z)  {N} ``^mustard''.  *Des.  #32300.(Munda)

Thus, there are two clusters to connote, perhaps, black and white mustard in Indian sprachbund..

kalyan

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