[tied] Re: searching for common words for all today's languages

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> Because loans are easier to identify when contemporaneous
> evidence from both source and borrower is available.
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> [...]
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> Brian

It is unlikely that a language would borrow a word for "water" from
another language. G & R's methods are undoubtedly more speculative
than IELs', but the words they have found are very basic. Water is #
150 on the Swadesh list.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swadesh_list#Swadesh_list_in_English

M. kelkar