Re: *dan-

--- In cybalist@egroups.com, "Torsten Pedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@egroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>

wrote:

> > Thank you, Torsten,
> >
> > I take back It was the mention of von Däniken and of that alarmed
> me. It's true I haven't read Oppenheimer's book, though I know it
> from reviews. I gather it does have a "New Agey" flavour, with its
> romantic narratives, references to Noah, Atlantis and the wisdom of
> village elders -- the kind of stuff calculated to satisfy the
> emotional needs of the popular reader.
>
>
>

As to romantic narratives: there's nothing romantic about drowning.
"Village elders": a lot of historical linguistics gets its stuff from
village elders, be they Austronesian or Albanian.
As for "amateur", that's right that what I am. I don't have the time
and resources to sift the material I have found. I have dragged
something into this forum (and I know no one else would have done
it), you professionals may now use it as you wish.

As for Proto-Austronesian: As far as I could determine from local
Lingistics library, PA has only been tentatively reconstructed,
precisely for the reasons you cite. So I didn't try to find PA
forms.

Torsten