Re: Limitations of the comparative method

Greek xrusos is a loanword from Semitic, it's not from
IE anything
That's why you need to know more than just Arabic if
you want to link Arabic to IE

--- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:

> It is not dhaHab (dotted-h) but dahab, simple h.
>
> Greek x generally cpmes from PIE *gh.
>
>
> Patrick
>
> ----- 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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