Re: Brugmann's Law

What about scorpions ?

A lion is not an elephant

and a scorpion is not a frog with a horn, or is it ?

Arnaud

----- Original Message -----

From: tgpedersen

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Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:02 PM

Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: Re: [tied] Brugmann's Law

--- In cybalist@... s.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@ ...> wrote:
>
> Somewhere on the web, there is or was a list of K-R
> words having to do with insects, vermin, and
> amphibians that includes words from IE, AA,
> Niger-Kordofanian et al. See cancer, crab, scorpion,
> crevette, etc.
> It seems to be one of those ubiquitous combinations
> like K-L for "wheel, circle" and B-R for "boil", B-L
> for "ball, round"
>

http://www.angelfir e.com/rant/ tgpedersen/ krn.html
http://tech. groups.yahoo. com/group/ cybalist/ message/7869
http://tech. groups.yahoo. com/group/ cybalist/ message/17385
http://tech. groups.yahoo. com/group/ cybalist/ message/18508

Torsten