Re[2]: [tied] Re: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

At 5:47:17 PM on Friday, September 21, 2007, fournet.arnaud
wrote:

> As far as I am concerned :

> 1. English bird < OE Brid

> => probably a Tibetan loanword from *brad
> VI century's Tibetan bya < *brad

> 2. English pig

> => probably a Tibetan loanword from *phag
> VI century's Tibetan phag < *pag

> 3. English dog

> => probably a proto-world super-cognate from *d_?-k
> (Germanic) or (ARabic) *d_?-b "dog, wolf, jackal"

As far as I'm concerned, none of these passes the laugh
test.

Brian