Re: Origin of Latin carbasus

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2006-07-18 16:44, amshuman_k wrote:
>
> > I also came across Malay 'kapas' and Mongol 'Kabaz/Kabiz' for
> > cotton. Are these words genetically related to Latin Carbasus ?
>
> They may easily be Indian loans, though it's hard to be sure without
> investigating them more closely.

Or originally Austro-Asiatic cf.
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/MT-Substrates.pdf
search for 'double prefix' and 'cotton'


Torsten