From: tgpedersen
Message: 47527
Date: 2007-02-18
> *akWa- <> *apa- "water"Also, one shouldn't forget that since, as we all know, the earth is
> (and as a side remark, note
> Chinese 'quan .. EMC kwen', "watering channels"' (with collective
> suffix -n) in
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/44559
> and
> Chinese 'xù EMC xwik "water channel, city moat"' in
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/43973
> and now we have outrageously connected *k^ank- "circle"
> with *akWa- (which must have meant some type of
> "artificial water" for there to be a need for the word to be loaned,
> ie. it meant, at the time of loan, (circular) "moat" or a semi- or
> quarter-circular one, if your defended area was in a fork
> between rivers, cf the centre of Hamburg (there was that
> word again) between the rivers Alster and Elbe.)
>