Re: 7-minute ITCH

We're looking 4,000 years of difference. Since I don't
know Kartvelian phonetics, you can tell why or why not
such a loanword would or wouldn't work

--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
>
> Or some could have been loanwords e.g. Georgian
> to/from Hittite
> =============
> So Hittite had *z and gave it to Georgian !
>
> Arnaud
> ===============
>
> > > Cf.
> > > Georgian zibziba "wheat"
> > > Latin av-esna "oats"
> > > Hittite seppi [sebi] "wheat"
> > > LAtin (substrate) sab-aia "bier"
> > > Supposedly ""dialectal"" word *yewo
> >
>
>

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