[tied] Re: PIE suffix *-ro - 'similar-with' => *kseud- & *ksud-ró

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 10:34 AM
> Subject: [tied] Re: PIE suffix *-ro - 'similar-with' => *kseud- &

*ksud-ró

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
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> > *ksud-ró <initial meaning: 'similar-with' an object resulted from
> > a 'to crush/pulverise operation: 'very small'>>
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> > Skt. ks.udrá f (a:)
> > - minute, diminutive, tiny, very small, little, trifling
> > - mean, low, vile
> > - wicked (said in joke)
> > - niggardly, avaricious
> > - cruel
> > - poor, indigent
> > - m. a small particle of rice
> > [My note: Note that the rice is not obtained by a pulverisation or
> > other 'to crush, to broke'-methods]
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> It is threshed, and broken rice is an undesirable by-product.
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> Patrick:
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> To a starving person, 'broken' is not a disqualifying factor.

You can find 'broken rice' on sale in England for human consumption!
It's cheaper than 'unbroken' rice, which also contains a proportion of
broken grains.

> Gleaning is not done by 'cheap' farmers but by starving people.

Aren't you confusing reaping and threshing?

Richard.