From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 41940
Date: 2005-11-09
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From: "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 6:09 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Proto Vedic Continuity Theory of Bharatiya (Indian)
Languages
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> The start date of 6500 > BCE relates to the find of the burial of
a woman at Mehergarh wearing > wide s'ankha bangle and s'ankha
ornaments. (s'ankha = turbinella pyrum > which is native and
indigenous to the coastline of bharatam and an > industry which
continues even today in Gulf of Mannar (Tiruchendur, >
Ki_r..akkarai) and the s'ankha dvi_pa near Surat, Gujarat. S'ankha is
> a metaphor which defines early hindu civilization and the work of
> riverine, maritime people in evolving this civilization from Nahali
> base (Tapati river valley not far from Bhimbhetka)
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Patrick:
For whatever it may be worth to however few, my own work suggests the the
most ancient word I can reconstruct for 'property' was *HHA-KXHO,
'sea-shell', reflected in, among other languages, PIE *e:ik-, Sumerian ak,
and Egyptian jx.t.
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