Re: Digest Number 2804

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> The words for elephant, tiger, rice do have Indo-European etymologies
> (Elst 2000).
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> http://koenraadelst.voiceofdharma.com/articles/aid/urheimat.html

That text says
1) Gamkrelidze & Ivanov have proposed an IE etymology for "elephant"
2) nothing about "tiger"
3) the word for "rice" might be Austronesian

which is not quite what you said it said.


Torsten