Re: [tied] Re: Euxine Event.

And Elamite? Dravidian? Sumerian? Anatolica? Some words for "monkey" or
lion?

Joao SL
Rio

----- Original Message -----
From: John Croft <jdcroft@...>
To: <cybalist@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 11:25 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Euxine Event.


> Joao wrote
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> > There's no possibility of PIE had a word for "monkey", unless we
> consider PIE as coming from Tibet, the more northern region in Asia
> where there are monkeys.The Germanic word must have a North African
> or
> Indian origin, but I can't realize by what way.
>
> There is evidence of Tigers and monkeys in the rainforests that used
> to exist on the southern shores of the Caspian sea, at least until
> the
> times of the Abbasid Caliphate of the Middle Ages. So there may have
> been cognates in the pre-Armenian languages of this region.
> (Hurro-Urartuean anyone?)
>
> Regards
>
> John
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