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

From: etherman23
Message: 53243
Date: 2008-02-15

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:
>
> What is this 35 word list ?
>
> It might be fun.

It's a list of 35 very stable (resistant to borrowing and loss)
lexical items. Apparently there's a better list of 50 but i don't
remember where I saw it. Have fun:

blood
bone
die
dog
ear
egg
eye
fire
fish
full
give
hand
horn
I
know
louse
moon
name
new
nose
one
salt
stone
sun
tail
this
thou
tongue
tooth
two
water
what
who
wind
year