From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 52705
Date: 2008-02-11
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From: "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 2:42 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *gWiH3w-
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> From: Rick McCallister
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> I'm intrigued about this root.
> Here's what I found at "Rice" on Wikipedia.
> I plead ignorance, so tell me why the Dravidian root
> looks more like your putative IE root than the
> Indo-iranian form does.
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> According to the Microsoft Encarta Dictionary (2004)
> and the Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (1988), the
> word rice has an Indo-Iranian origin. It came to
> English from Greek óryza, via Latin oriza, Italian
> riso and finally Old French ris (the same as present
> day French riz).
> It has been speculated that the Indo-Iranian vrihi
> itself is borrowed from a Dravidian vari (< PDr.
> *warinci)[6] or even a Munda language term for rice.
> The Tamil name ar-risi may have produced the Arabic
> ar-ruzz, from which the Portuguese and Spanish word
> arroz originated.
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> Note 6. Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003) The Dravidian
> Languages Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN
> 0-521-77111-0 at p. 5.
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> If you search Starostin's dravidian,
> *ar is rice
> war is supposed to be a loanword form Austronesian.
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> Maybe ar is related to ?at?
> Egyptian ?_t
> Latin ad-or etc
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> Arnaud
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