Re: [tied] Nakh Daghestan and the origins of agriculture

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jdcroft@...> wrote:

> Glen wrote
>
> > Concerning the word *stu, it would be related to Semitic *Tawru-
> > and that *st is an answer to a loaned word with a dental

thibilant.

> > I presume that the "V" in *Vlha is an undetermined vowel and the
> > "lh" is an aspirated lateral or fricative? One would think that it
> > has some connection with IE *wlxnax and there would also appear to
> > be a pre-Greek (Tyrrhenian?) word *malo (Greek /mallos/).
> > Perhaps others have different thoughts about this. What does
> > capital "M" signify in *Muq?
>
> Sorry Glen it was meant to be *(m)uq, or *muq.
>
> Regards
>
> John

These Nakh etymologies are based on ill-reconstructed protoforms.
As Starostin's NEC reconstruction is considered mere bullshit, the
only attempts I see of shed some light on NEC prehistory are
amateurish and without any care of phonological details.
Hardly these reconstructions are better than the ones provided in
Starostin's database. Very hardly.

Marco