[tied] Re: PIE's closest relatives

From: tgpedersen
Message: 29249
Date: 2004-01-08

> The question: Are there any terms connected with metallurgy or
metal working
> among the non-IE roots in Germanic?

It so happens that *arud-/*raud- > German Erz "ore", Finnish
rauta "iron" etc (and in this case Sumerian <urudu> "copper" is one
of the glosses of Schrijver's North European substrate 'language of
bird names' with cognates in Celtic, Germanic, Baltic and Baltic
Finnic.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/29160
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/25730
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/24881

A lot Old European river names begin with a-

A lot of Møller's supposed IE-Semitic cognates, which might instead
be loanwords, begin with /a-/, ie. a laryngeal /H-/, including that
famous *ab-/*ap- "water (course)" which he links with Latin <bibere>
(< */b-/), Slavic piti "drink" (< */p/), cf. his linking of Latin
<ab> < */-b/), Germanic *bi (< *bh-), <up> (< *-p>); note the Noreen
alternation (personally I'd like to link the water word to the
adverbs:

http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Opr.html

)

Perhaps we might equate these three languages?

Torsten