From: Rick McCallister
Message: 53995
Date: 2008-02-22
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> Okay, but it's a bit premature, not to say
> pretentious, to refer to "Harappan"
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> I wrote "pre-indic"
> afterwards
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> Arnaud
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> --- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
> wrote:
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> > Has anyone made a list of the BMAC vocabulary and
> > systematically compared it to Burushaski and/or
> > Caucasian?
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> >
> > I have been assembling a
> > comparative vocabulary of
> > Elamite and Dravidian.
> >
> > Which suggests that
> > Elamite and Harrapan may have
> > undergone a typical change :
> > Pharyngal H1 > sh
> > But dravidian does not display
> > this palatalisation.
> >
> > Data :
> >
> > 1. *doH "man"
> >
> > Huri doH "servant"
> > Cf. Greek doulos < doHelos
> > Elamite ta-sshu "man"
> > Pre-Indic "dâsa-" < *dosa
> >
> > This word is a clear proof
> > the natives of India are not IE.
> >
> > 2. *?aH "buffle"
> >
> > Egyptian ?_H
> > Coptic yôH
> > Elamite ash "cattle herd"
> >
> > 3. *&_H- "to breathe, nose"
> >
> > Elamite shi-um-me "his nose"
> > IE H2nH1-m "wind"
> > Dravidian *a:v "breathe"
> >
> > 4. *H_y "to come, to go"
> >
> > i.e H1ey
> > Elamite shi-in-nu "coming"
> > Dravidian *va: "to come"
> >
> > To be continued
> >
> > Arnaud
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