Glen

Then how do you explain its appearance in Altaic, Turkish and
Mongolian

John

--- In nostratic@..., "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:
>
> >>[A]
> >>I'm quoting V.Illich-Svitych, 1971 (Opyt sravneniya
nostraticheskich
> >>yazykov):
> > >
> > > Root # 173. *kOr'i - 'lamb, sheep'
> >
> >[...] I have wondered though whether the linguistics related to
> >sheep have been a "wonderword", moving with the first people
> >who domesticated sheep and passed on to those who adopted sheep
> >from their neighbours. [...] Do you as a practicing linguist know
> >how one detects the presence of a wonder word
>
> The word for "sheep" must obviously be a later wanderword (erh,
> not "wonderword") keeping in mind archaeological considerations.
> Plus, I'm suspecting that IE *ker- is Semitish (or "ultimately of
> Semitic origin" for the faint of heart) like many other words
> that show up in Bomhard's list of Nostratic reconstructions
> mysteriously having only AA and IE cognates.
>
>
> - love gLeN
>
>
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