Re: [tied] Another desparate scenario

Is there a similar root in Munda or other Mon-Khmer
languages? Or in Nahali? Or Kusunda?


--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> 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?
>
>
> Torsten
>
>
>

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