Re: *kor'i-

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> I'm very interested in up-to-date view on Nostratic stem *kor'i- (a
> sheep, a lamb). This stem was given by Illich-Svitych in his Nostratic
> Glossary as #173. Do you know other Nostratic stems concerning
> agricultural terms (a goat, corn, weat, barley, to sow) or something
> like this?

All I can remember is the following stems which are either Nostratic or just borrowed by Indo-European from other families (Semitic, Caucasian, etc.) - the matter is still under discussion:

*ag'r- a field
*Hat- grain (IE, Hurrian, Hurritic)
*gu-, *gw- a bull
*dq- a goat (IE and Cartvelian)
*sw- swine
*dhn- grain, a sort of grain (IE and Semitic)
*tawr- a bull


CYRIL BABAEV