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

--- In cybalist@..., "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@...>
wrote:

> --- 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.

True, Watson. That's why I imagined it must have loaned at a time
when AfroAsiatic roamed a lush Sahara for there to have been a
unbroken linguistic connection between coast and interior (yuck - is
this English?).

>
> Richard.

Torsten