Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *gWiH3w-

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 52666
Date: 2008-02-11

Thanx

So the word "rice" is probably Munda?
Millet, btw, in Spanish is alpiste --with an
improbably /p/. What would the Arabic form have been?


--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> >
> > I knew millet was the oldest grain in the Far East
> but
> > the article doesn't mention Europe or least I
> didn't
> > see a date for Europe
>
>
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/47414
>
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/43178
>
>
> That's why I suggested the archives.
>
> BTW I read recently, but forgot where, that the
> ancestor of all rice
> has been found in Nepal.
>
>
> Torsten
>
>



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