Re: Meaning of Aryan: now, "white people"?

Then I give him credit for having mentioned it. But
I'm sure Trask was right. You'll have to go back and
see what Trask wrote but it was pretty convincing.
Bengtson didn't offer anything to back up his hunch.
There was also a controversy re: mini and other modern
Basque words beginning with /m/. Trask said they
originally had /b/ or /nb/. I believe the rest of the
Basque scholars all agreed with Trask.


--- Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...> wrote:

>
>
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...>
> wrote:
>
> > Be careful with Bengtson's information. Even after
> > Larry Trask showed him that much of his Basque
> > vocabulary consisted of loanwords from Romance, he
> > refused to even consider the possibility. I don't
> know
> > how good his information is from other sources but
> his
> > work on Basque is seriously flawed because he lets
> his
> > grand design get in the way of facts.
> > Basically Bengtson refused to believe that
> pre-Basque
> > lacked /m/, something that Basque specialists seem
> to
> > agree on. He also refused to consider words from
> > Gascon, Aragonese as probable sources for
> loanwords
> > into Basque --e.g. eme "woman, female (morpheme)"
> <
> > Gascon heme "woman" < femina; okondo < native
> Basque
> > oko "arm" + ondo "bottom (morpheme)" from Gascon
> or
> > Spanish hondo are a couple I remember.
>
> Some details of this controversy are found on
> Bengtson's Basque
> database recently put online:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/3b9cuq
> http://tinyurl.com/2jxwmg
>
> Regards,
> Francesco
>
>
>
>

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