Re: Another desparate scenario

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@...>
wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" <richard@>
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> > > I'll stick to the conventional scenario:
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> > > Pali: Mata 2. [pp. of marati, mr.] dead. < PIE *mer
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> > > Proto-Afroasiatic: *mawVt - not only Semitic, but also
> > > Egyptian mwt, Berber forms mostly &mm&t (& = schwa), and
> > > Chadic (e.g. Hausa _mútù_).
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> > > See http://tinyurl.com/2dtvoh for the entry in the Tower of
> > > Babel's Afroasiatic database.
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> > Borean is nice too (ibd.). Dravidian *mad.- "die, perish".
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> According to B. Krishnamurti and other Dravidian linguists, there
> is no /*d./ (retroflex /d/) phoneme in Proto-Dravidian.

That's how I read it in
http://tinyurl.com/2xtkmb
but I might be wrong.


Torsten