Re: [tied] Re: Lusitanians

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 3596
Date: 2000-09-06

Joao:
>Accorrding to Manfred Owstrowski's homepage the drop of N also ocurrs >in
>Basque.
>Old Basque bini > Basque mihi "tongue"
>Latin anas, anat- "duck"" > Basque ahate

Yes it does. Larry Trask, a Vasconist by day, mentioned this as well, on the
slowly dying Nostratic List of www.linguistlist.org about a year or two ago.
You can check its archives online for his quoted thoughts on it.


- gLeN

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