[tied] Re: Celtic and Baltic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>
>
> Torsten:
> >I looked it up: it was Bomhard, not Møller, and it was the cognates
> >of Latin 'rota', not the *k-l- word, but other than that, it was
> >accurate. My ears are red.
>
> That's what I thought. I remember this root. The IE root is *rotx-
> and if I recall, the Semitic equivalent was supposed to convey "to

roll"

> containing a t-underdot. Unfortunately, I think I've permanently

lost

> my precious "Indo-European and the Nostratic Hypothesis" in my
> incessant moving last year. I thought the connection was

interesting,

> not because it is a Nostratic root (surely it isn't), but rather

because I

> think that this might be indicative another Semitic loanword into IE
> during some point in the neolithic.
>

Pick up a copy of one of Møller's books, and you'll have Semitic-IE
correspondences galore, hundreds of them. Once you give up Møller's
(and Bomhard (who lists him among his references) 's) idea that the
relationship is cognacy, not loan, you'll have plenty to stuff your
website coffers with. But I suppose you'd have to scrap one of your
hangups first.

Torsten