From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 40557
Date: 2005-09-24
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From: "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...>
To: "Cybalist" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 8:29 AM
Subject: [tied] PIE word for "people"
> Is there any PIE word meaning "people"? Is there any relationship between
> such word and another non-IE equivalents, meanly in Kartvelian,
> Afro-Asiatic, Elamo-Dravidic? Was there any attempt to reconstruct a
> Nostratic word for "people"?
>
> Joao SL
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Patrick:
Yes, I believe so.
For PIE, we would reconstruct *ro:m-, seen in Latin Ro:ma: and Gypsy rom,
'man'; Old Indian ra:ma-, 'name of people'
It is also in Egyptian rmT, 'men, mankind';
Burushaski rôm, 'clan, tribe, community'.
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