From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 52074
Date: 2008-01-30
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] 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.
> > =========
> > Tsalam? t?ob
> >
> > This reconstruction does not conflict with *zahav
> >
> > Arnaud
> > ================
> > >
> > > 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.
> > ==========
> > 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
> > ==============
> > > 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
> > >
> > > ***
> > ========
> > Just be patient.
> >
> > Arnaud
> > ===========
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
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