From: tgpedersen
Message: 48278
Date: 2007-04-07
>Borean is nice too (ibd.). Dravidian *mad.- "die, perish"
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
>
> Richard Wordingham wrote:
> > > Of course, plain coincidence can occur - Austronesian
> > > _mati_ 'die' looks a lot lile Pali _mata_ 'dead', but Maori
> > > _mate_ 'die' indicates that this is a coincidence.
>
> > And it looks also like the corresponding Semitic root.
> > How about this scenario: OIT plus Austronesian colonization of >
> > the Indian coasts?
>
> I'll stick to the conventional scenario:
>
> Pali: Mata 2. [pp. of marati, mr.] dead. < PIE *mer
>
> Proto-Afroasiatic: *mawVt - not only Semitic, but also Egyptian
> mwt, Berber forms mostly &mm&t (& = schwa), and Chadic (e.g. Hausa
> _mútù_).
> See http://tinyurl.com/2dtvoh for the entry in the Tower of
> Babel's Afroasiatic database.
>