Re: 7-minute ITCH

Wheat was domesticated at least 10,000 years ago and
possibly was gathered 17,000 years ago (charred grain
kernals from that time have been discovered in present
Israel), so the words could conceivably go back a long
ways

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

>
> > 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
>
> ===========
> 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
> ===============
>
> 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
> =============
>
> *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
>
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