Re: [tied] I think I found the mah and meh.

From: Patrick C. Ryan
Message: 10677
Date: 2001-10-27

Dear Anders and Cybalisters:

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Subject: Re: [tied] I think I found the mah and meh.


>
> Anders, believing that he has "found the mah and meh":
> >Apparently it was Sumerian
> >Interesting!
> >
> >(Addition AA)PN *mayak?xa¿- "(to be) overly full (of); (to be)
> >excessively large (with), excessively great with" > PIE *meig^h-
> >/*moig^h-/*mig^h- (from **meighy-) "(to be) overly full (of),
> >(to be)
>
> Please be more careful, Anders. You may notice that Patrick Ryan,
> the author of your link, is... well, how do we say, "different"
> than the rest of us. He doesn't believe in sound rules and
> methodology like a normal linguist. His Nostratic reconstructions
> are chaotic, all in order to suit his self-contradicting
> assertions about language origins. I've run into his ranting on two
> Nostratic lists now, and he unfortunately manages to make these
> lists unpleasant by way of his cantankerous and irrational posts.
> Please don't heed anything on his site because a lot of it is
> simply false.
>
> I will have to consult Bomhard's book but, if I recall, he
> suggests a less obfuscated reconstruction (something like
> Nostratic *mag-, I think?), based on IndoEuropean *megx- and
> Sumerian /mah/, among other etyma.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2803/NostraticDictionary.htm

In this file, search for #514, and there will be five pages of discussion for this root and related items.

If anyone has valid ciriticisms of the methodology employed there, I would be glad to revise the section.

Pat

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