Re: [tied] Agriculture in Basque and IE (+PIE)

--- Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 17:19:27 -0800 (PST), george
> knysh
> <gknysh@...> wrote:
>

as to the

> >"language of agriculture" (or "agricultural terms
> >package") in Basque and IE (esp. PIE). Is there a
> >common lexicon or are the words quite different?
>
> MCV: On the whole, quite different. Nevertheless,

some

> words have been
> clearly borrowed from various IE languages, and in a
> number of other
> cases, one may speculate about possible links.
>
> In Larry Trask's "The History of Basque" there is a
> very useful
> section devoted to Basque vocabulary, from which
> I've selected a
> couple of items in the categories ANIMALS, PLANTS
> and FOODS (but note
> that reconstructed Basque forms with more than one
> star are mine, not
> Larry's)./ETC. cut for economy/

******GK: Thank you very much for this Miguel.*****


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