Arba, Arab, Four (Re: Etruscan numerals)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "loreto bagio" <bagoven20@...>
wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Marco Moretti"
> <marcomoretti69@...> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "loreto bagio" <bagoven20@...>
> > wrote:
> > > lost the battle against Zeus and his sibling-gods. Some say tar-

> > > there is related to the Sanskrit -tala. Incidentally so many
> Indic
> > > names with the suffix -tala are depicted as anyone of the

layers

> of
> > > heaven or of the underworld.
> > > Examples are Atala, Patala, Mahatala etc.
> > >
> > > Loreto
> >
> > All these are totally worthless folk-etymologies.
>
> So what are the worthy folk etymologies? Let's just say 'partially'
> not totally to give you a little edge.
>
> > Arabic /arba'/ has a final 'ayin that is sufficient to deny any
> > connection with /rabb/. The verb /arifa/ has another labial
> > consonant, /f/ (from proto-Semitic /p/) and cannot be matched
> > with /arba'/ and with /rabb/.
> > Simply mediaeval absurdities! I understand it without necessity

to

> > talk with Arabs. You seem to be lost in reverie. We have got
> > scientific method, don't forget it.
> >
>
> Now we have proclaimed scientists here?
> Well maybe you are right. But those are the folk etymologies of the
> Arabs and if I am to be scientific I'll start with them. NOt with
> the folk etymologies or should I say 'scientific methods' of
> Europeanists.
> And why is it not necessary to talk to the Arabs?
>
> Loreto

ALL FOLK ETYMOLOGIES ARE FALSE. Is for this reason that we call them
FOLK etymologies. They are a bogus product of people's ignorance.
Allways. So folk etymologies of Arabs or folks etymologies of
Europeans are in any way bogus due to their own definition.
We should be scientists. Only Science provides some knoledge.
If you don't believe that languages undergo natural evolution by
means of REGULAR phonetic changes, perhaps you should subscrive some
magical, mystical group rather than a linguistic one.
Folk etymology is an infection that blur and obscure any possibility
to know something for sure, and all scientists must reject it!
My ideas about Arabs are not very popular, so I prefer not to go on
with this idle discussion.
I think the moderators should prohibit posts like yours because they
are quite obnoxious.

Marco