Re: PIE-Arabic Correspondences (was Brugmann's Law)

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 51514
Date: 2008-01-20

PIE Arabic is a waste of time --go back to AA and you
can't find the AA root, at least give roots from
Semitic, Berber, Egyptian, Cushitic, Omotic and
Chadic. No one will take PIE Arabic seriously unless
you're positing loanwords

--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Patrick Ryan
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 7:44 PM
> Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Re:
> PIE-Arabic Correspondences (was Brugmann's Law)
>
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>
> I will add :
> sekw "to follow" = Arabic *saq
>
> ***
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> There is _no_ *saq meaning 'follow' in standard
> Arabic.
> Patrick
> ***
>
> Very often, I wonder why such a level of
> incompetence is put up with on this forum.
> You claim proto-world-esque reconstructions
> but you don't even have a good Arabic dictionary :
>
> Kazimirski tome 1 page 1167 :
> sâq : "suivre, aller à la suite ; se suivre les
> uns les autres"
>
> Arnaud
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