Re: [tied] Re: Vagaries of Swadesh Lists (was: Automatic clustering

On 2007-04-07 18:25, Roger Mills wrote:

> ... A quite exhaustive listing of Indic loans is
> online at: http://crcl.th.net/indic/indo.htm . Unfortunately, the Skt.
> transliterations display poorly, both in IE and Firefox :-(

It displays well if you download and install the required font (Times_CSX+).

By the way, Eng. tank comes at least partly from Gujarati ta:nkH
'cistern', whose likely source is Skt. tad.a:ga-, and so <tank> a cousin
of the Indonesian/Malaysian 'lake' word. It's a small world.

Piotr