Re: [tied] Re: h1,h2,h3 in Albanian

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From: "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
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Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 3:53 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: h1,h2,h3 in Albanian


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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: h1,h2,h3 in Albanian
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> > As long as the white stork is (mostly) conspicuously white, the semantic
> > match is perfectly OK. It's funny that I should be defending a
> > Romano-Albanian connection and you should be so sceptical of it.
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> > Piotr
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> Patrick:
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> It may be of some peripheral interest that the Egyptian word for 'stork'
> is also based on this root: b3 (for *bj3), 'jabiru, saddle-billed stork'.
> Additionally, we have par (for *pâr), 'shiny, white' in Sumerian.
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