Re: [tied] Lat. niger once again

From: tgpedersen
Message: 42938
Date: 2006-01-14

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
>
> Could be the original form of *negWHro- "kidney" a neuter *negWHr-;-
n-, analogous to *yekWr(t)-yekWn- "liver"?
>
Ehret: Reconstructing Proto-AfroAsiatic
343.
*inkwal- "kidney"
Semitic *kl(l) "kidney"
Cushitic *inkwal-/*ankwal- "kidney"
Omotic
[Ometo: Koyra kalátte; SOm: Ari kela "kidney":
separate loans < Eastern Cushitic]

cf Latin inguen, ON økkr "swelling"


Torsten