Re: Finnish KASKI

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Patrick Ryan
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 1:08 PM
> Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Re: Finnish KASKI
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> It may be of interest to a few that this word is unusual in that the
> 'laryngeals' normally appear in Egyptian as <j> or <h> but in this
> one word, it seems to appear as <x> (I.e. hook-h): <xnt(y)>.
>
> Patrick
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> There is a coincidence between
> PIE *H2ent-i
> and
> Egyptian *x_n_t "
>
> But these two words are unconnected
> because *x is generally PIE *k
> and PIE *t should be *s

And therefore it's most likely a loan.

>
> So nothing useful can come out of this.
>
> Arnaud

Nothing useful to a theory to which relations are exclusively by descent.


Torsten