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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
> Well, I am nor sure I understand what you are asking
I was simply asking what is the LINGUISTIC MATERIAL that allows such
a bombastic reconstruction as PIE *aryo- 'white person' is. I could
not trace the root giving this proposed meaning in any PIE
dictionary (maybe I should try on the Stormfront website? :-)).
> but let me approach it in this way:
>
> HH (dotted h)
>
> HHar, pale -> *Ha(:)r-, 'pale/white'
>
> Is that any better?
No, it isn't, if you don't provide any linguistic comparanda.
Interestingly, Bomhard has PIE */Hh/er-yo- (*/Hh/ar-yo-) 'a
superior, a person higher in status or rank' (where */Hh/ indicates
Bomhard's PIE sequence of a voiceless pharyngeal fricative and a
voiceless glottal fricative). He compares this posited root to Proto-
Afroasiatic *Har-/*H@... 'to be superior, to be hugher in status or
rank, to be above or over', which he claims to be identical to the
Proto-Nostratic root in form and meaning -- see at
http://tinyurl.com/252gt5
Bomhard doesn't give any morphologically parallel root
meaning 'white/pale', nor does Starostin.
Regards,
Francesco