[tied] Re: House and City

--- In cybalist@..., "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:

>
> Torsten:
> >BTW, I remember a remark somewhere to the effect that early
> >Mediterranean languages (Eteo-Cypriot?) show a vacillation r/n/l,
> >which would account for the r/l part. So do some Austronesian
> >languages.
>
> So does Mandarin and Cantonese. So what?
>
> - gLeN
>
>

If I claim that the *b/p-r/l rump/dump/lump is a Wanderwort from
Sundaland that ended up in the Mediterranean, then it is is relevant
that there is d/r/l/n vacillation in pre-IE Mediterranean and in
Austronesian languages, and it is irrelevant that that also occurs in
Mandarin and Cantonese. You can do better than that, gLeN.

Torsten