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

It is not unheard of to have more than one word for a concept.

Patrick

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From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
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Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *gWiH3w-


> So then. What's this Dravidian *warinci?
> Is ar-isi a folk etymology?
>
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> --- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:
>
> > Dravidan *ar- means simply 'white'; add -*si, 'seed'
> > with a combining form
> > *ar-i- and voilá! (a)ris(i).
> >
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> > Patrick
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 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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> >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Rick McCallister
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Note 6. Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003) The
> > Dravidian
> > > Languages Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
> > ISBN
> > > 0-521-77111-0 at p. 5.
> > > ============
> > >
> > > If you search Starostin's dravidian,
> > > *ar is rice
> > > war is supposed to be a loanword form
> > Austronesian.
> > >
> > > Maybe ar is related to ?at?
> > > Egyptian ?_t
> > > Latin ad-or etc
> > >
> > > Arnaud
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