From: tgpedersen
Message: 29301
Date: 2004-01-09
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>wrote:
> >And perhaps you even have reasons for thinking so?
> >
> > Everyone balks at an alternation *d-/*H- such as there supposedly
> is
> > in the PIE word for "two" *dw-/*Hw-. How odd that it occurs in
> Malayo-
> > Polynesian too:
> >
> > *hipaR "opposite side of a river"
> >
> > dipag "other side, opposite side" Mansaka
> > dehipag "the opposite side of
> > a canyon or valley" Manobo
> > difar "the other side, in the sense
> > of the side facing the speaker" Tiruray
> > 'ifar "to cross over to the other side
> > (as of a river or street)"
> > se'ifar tamuk "to negotiate formally
> > the terms of a brideprice"
> > dipah "opposite bank of a river" Mukah
> > dipah "opposite bank of a river" Kayan
> (Baluy)
> > dipar "opposite side" Kelabit
> > dipah "either of the sides of a river" Uma Juman
> >
> > "It thus seems likely that the dual divisions of
> > Proto-Malayo-Polynesian society were at least traditionally,
> > if not physically, associated with settlements on
> > either side of a river" (R. Blust)
>
>
> Perhaps I'm a little bit boring, but I think that all this
> attempt to link IE and Austronesian is mere gibberish.
>