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

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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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Found the "milk" root:

Laurent Sagart:
The Roots of Old Chinese
p. 129
"
One probable case of a word in GSR 766 which did not have an initial
cluster is lao4 MC lak "kumiss" ..., from (late) OC *(A)rak, which
probably writes the wanderwort arak "alcoholic beverage"
"
(A) is syllable type.

Torsten

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Patrick:

A "wandergeist" rather than a "wanderwort" is probably at work here.

 

I wonder why a word which is Arabic ¿-r-q is "wandering" as *arak.

 

Perhaps for 'ease of comparison'?

 

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