Re: 7-minute ITCH

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 52374
Date: 2008-02-06

> 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)?
Torsten

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Absurd.
Do you think mankind had to wait for agriculture
in order to experience the need to eat ?
and give names to eatable things ?

Arnaud
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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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*z_b has no dating nor splitting significance.

Neither has
*PIE *m_l "to crush (cereals"
Chinese *mo < *mal

Nor has
*PIE *wrugh-yo
Chinese *mrïk

Arnaud