Re: [tied] Re: PIE's closest relatives

From: Joao
Message: 29708
Date: 2004-01-16

But these words for ram could be originally used for wild sheep, perhaps the North African Ammotragus lervia.
 
Joao SL
----- Original Message -----
From: Alexander Stolbov
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: PIE's closest relatives

John Croft wrote:

> With the exception of Ancient Egyptian and Proto-
> Semitic, Afro-Asiatic langauges do not share a common vocabulary for
> agricultural items suggesting that the Proto-Berber, Proto-Hausa,
> Proto-Cushitic, Proto-Egyptian and Proto-Semitic dispersed BEFORE
> agriculture spread across the area of the Sahara and Sahel.

From Illich-Svitych (#173):

Afro-Asiatic *kr 'lamb, young ram'
Semitic *kr 'lamb, ram'
Berberic *kr(r) - Tuareg <ekrer> 'ram' ; Shelkha <ikru> 'young ram' ;
Kabilian <ikerri> 'ram'
Chadic - Angas <kir> 'ram on fattening'

Alexander


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