Serbian "oko" (eye), plural "oči" (eyes), adj. "očito" (obvious,
conspicuous), verb. "uočiti" (to see), "učiti" (learn), "čuti" (hear), noun
"čudo" (wonder), "čula" (senses), "učenik" (pupil), personal names
Čudomil, Čedomil, Čedomir, "čedo" (child), syntagma "čedo milo" (loving,
sweet child); personal name Milko; "oči moje!" (my dear child!), "čedo
li je?" (is it a child?)
"oči dati" (bring eyes), "čedan" (oči-do-gna; to drive eyes; virtuous,
innocent)
Oko (eye), uho (ear), douka (learning, education), djak (pupil), dokaz
(proof) - do oka (near the eye)
Č=CH
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <
tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <
tgpedersen@> wrote:
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--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <
proto-language@>
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Torsten, I think Old Chinese is fairly straightforward but I
> thank
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you for the nice and very interesting summary.
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I am much more concerned about why Sino-Tibetan presents itself
> as
> > a prefixing language.
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Maybe because it *is* a prefixing language?
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> > > Any thoughts?
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It seems to be there is another, as yet unidentified "player" at
> > the table.
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The three PIE roots *lak(t)-, *galak(t)- and *melg^-/*melk^- *taken
>
together* look like they were loaned from a (predominantly)
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prefixing language, eg Sino-Tibetan. The fact that there is a
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similar root with matching semantics in PTB *m-/s-lyak- and in OC
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*luk makes it likely that this is the case.
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So, no cognacy, in the strict sense of the word.
And to this family I can add, from Greater Austronesian:
Formosan _alak_ 'child'
Proto-Kra *lak 'child'
Proto-Tai *lMuk 'offspring' (M = back unrounded semivowel)
and possibly
Proto-Tai *?dek 'child' (could be <
Kam-Sui *?dek, *?dlek or *?drek)
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *anak 'child' spoils this set.
But if we want a prefixing donor language, can we not just go to NW
Caucasian? And are we not in grave danger of not only being way
off-topic, but merely collecting look-alikes?
Richard.
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