Re: Limitations of the comparative method

re: gold
Arabic, as I remember is dhaHab and Tigrinya is dahab
--I had a friend in college with that name
Greek xrusos is supposed from Phoenician. What was the
source?
It might fit in to your *Ha(:)w(e)s-

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

> > ***
> >
> > The better reconstruction for Latin aurum, 'gold',
> is *Ha(:)w(e)s-,
> > 'illuminate', the color associated with _golden_
> dawn as Pokorny so
> > correctly has it.
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> Tsalam? t?ob
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> This reconstruction does not conflict with *zahav
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> Arnaud
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> >
> > To abstract "H2_H2_w" from zahab (what is with the
> Hebrew? Arabic has kept
> > it all together much more smartly) is unbelievably
> bizarre and
> > incontrovertibly unjustifed.
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> I am afraid you have not looked at data carefully
> enough
> What about :
> Georgian zibziba "wheat"
> Latin av-esna "oats"
> Hittite seppi [sebi] "wheat"
> LAtin (substrate) sab-aia "bier"
>
> Hittite keeps trace of -z- as -s-
> and of -dz- as -zz-.
> Look at Hittite once again
> now that you have the key.
>
> Arnaud
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> > Pray tell where a table of correspondences
> enabling anything like what was
> > reconstructed is published. I will buy one because
> it certainly will be
> > rare.
> >
> > Patrick
> >
> > ***
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> Just be patient.
>
> Arnaud
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