> When evaluating the plausibility of this idea, we should also
grapple
> with all other evidence of fossilized Semitic affixes in
IndoEuropean
> already accrued such as the masculine *-t- in *septm "seven"
> (Sem *sab`-it-u-),
cf Gothic sibun, without the -t-. Did PIE borrow both the masc. and
fem. forms of the word (The Pleiades are mostly known as Seven
Sisters; did some branch of Semitic know it as collective of males)?
BTW I'm reading Joseph: The Destruction of Atlantis, a book nice
linguists shouldn't read, of course. But how come these guys from
purely mythic and legendary stuff arrive at the same coclusions I did
using what linguistics I know: worldwide cataclysm when a star
disappeared in the Pleiades, beta taurid meteor shower seeming to
appear out of one of the horn of Taurus?
Torsten