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

--- In cybalist@..., "anthonyappleyard" <MCLSSAA2@...> wrote:

> Someone wrote:-
> > Incidentally, how do _you_ explain the Chadic-Austronesian links.
>
> Between any two completely unrelated languages, by the laws of

chance

> there are bound to be some accidental apparent resemblances. For
> example, Latin papilio = Nahuatl papalotl = butterfly; Greek theos

=

> Nahuatl teotl = god.

Thank you. I didn't know that.

Torsten