Re: 7-minute ITCH

Or some could have been loanwords e.g. Georgian
to/from Hittite

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> > Do cereals also buzzzzzz in your first language ?
> > or maybe they should zzzzzzbykac' ?
> >
> > Cf.
> > Georgian zibziba "wheat"
> > Latin av-esna "oats"
> > Hittite seppi [sebi] "wheat"
> > LAtin (substrate) sab-aia "bier"
> > Supposedly ""dialectal"" word *yewo
>
> You realize of course that a common word for a
> cereal can't have
> been common earlier than the organized use of it,
> ie. agriculture
> (who'd be interested otherwise in naming types of
> grasses)?
>
> So you'll have to violate either
> 1) the date of earliest agriculture, or
> 2) the date of the split between Kartvelian and IE.
>
>
> Torsten
>
>
>

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