Re: Real or Spurious Root Matches? (was OE *picga)

--- In cybalist@..., "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., "Richard Wordingham"

<richard.wordingham@...>

> >
> > Incidentally, how do _you_ explain the Chadic-Austronesian links.

> I-forgot-who
> recently proposed a special link between Egyptian and Chadic, this
> would make extra sense of the idea of Egyptians as Saharan drought-
> refugees (and Chadic peoples as stay-behinds). But that would put

any

> putative contacts with Austronesian way back.

Not as far back as your earlier suggestion that the influence was on
proto-Afro-Asiatic! (AA is too ambiguous to use with you.) That was
your earlier explanation. However, a movement from mid-Sahara to
Egypt would not carry Austronesian words *to* Chad.

Richard.