Re: Limitations of the comparative method

Incidentally. Arabic dhahab is related to a number of other Arabic words
meaning 'smelt'.

Applying my rules for conversions between Arabic and PIE, dhahab can easily
be related to PIE *ta:w-, 'smelt'.

Patrick
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No,
Arabic dhahb cannot be PIE *ta:w.
It can only be *daH2-w or *daH2-b

which also means my own reconstruction
of western PIE *H_H-w-s
cannot be a *real* *cognate* with
Hebrew zahab.
Arabic refutes this idea.
In fact, some loan-process must have occurred

Arnaud
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