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 2:58 PM
> Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: Re: [tied] Re: Finnish KASKI
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> You have some of the most bizarre correspondences!
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> PIE *t should be Egyptian <s>??????
>
> Show me that pair of regular correspondences in any two languages in the
> world.
>
> Patrick
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> *m_t "to give birth"
> PIE ma:te:r
> Eg m_s

The PIE word clearly comes from the nursery word *me or *ma with the
famial suffix *h2ter.

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> *t&_b- "young bull"
> PIE *tauros
> Eg s_&_b
>
> Take your time
> don't come up telling me
> you haven't found them.

PIE *tauros is a Semitic borrowing, so useless for genetic
correspondences and sound laws.