From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 52438
Date: 2008-02-07
----- Original Message -----
From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:49 AM
Subject: Fw: Re: [tied] 7-minute ITCH
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:
>
>
> > The agriculture words, cf
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/42285
> > and the word for grinding *mVl- Arnoud pointed out are
> > suspiciously similar, compared to the remaining vocabulary. Also
> > bear in mind that agriculture did not spread instantaneously from
> > its point of origin, in Northern Europe, eg., it started several
> > thousand years later.
> >
> > Torsten
> >
> > ==============
> > The word *only one*
> > referred to in
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/42285
> > is just the cognate to Latin far-ina < *bh_r.
> >
And?
> > And I still cannot see the link between an "agriculture" word
> > and anything related to food and food preparation.
You see no connection between agriculture and food?
> > What is the meaning of :
> > agriculture did not spread instantaneously from its point of
> > origin, in Northern Europe, eg., it started several thousand years
> > later.
> >
> > Looks very unclear.
What is it you don't understand?
Torten