Re: Re[6]: [tied] Re: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

For many of the Celtic items, you cuold be right BUT he absolutely refused to even consider the possibility that other pre-Roman IE languages could have influeced Basque

but there words that seems to correspond to non-Latin and non-Celtic

"Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

At 3:49:01 AM on Thursday, September 20, 2007, Rick
McCallister wrote:

> Even though Trask pointed out that much of Basque toponymy
> is of Celtic origin and possibly even the word Basque, he
> only considered about 5 or 10 Basque words to be of Celtic
> origin and refused to consider any other possible
> pre-Roman IE languages that were known to be in the area
> such as Lusitanian and Ligurian

How do you distinguish 'refused to consider' from 'gave due
consideration to and dismissed'?

Brian

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