Re: Oltak

From: tgpedersen
Message: 20830
Date: 2003-04-07

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:
>
> Torsten:
> >Kartvelian languages used to be spoken much further north, along
> >the Black Sea coast, I seem to recall (and it has
the 'dan' "water" word).
>
> The reconstructed "water" stem in IE you're alluding to is
> *deh2nu-. It wouldn't be from Kartvelian afaik.
>
>
Ah, now we just need to know on which day of Creation God created
Pokorny. Check your Bomhard. 'dan' meaning "level surface" or "the
sea" is found also in Austronesian and Basque (early Cybalist).

Torsten

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