From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 52350
Date: 2008-02-05
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] 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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