Re: Mitanni and Matsya

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 12:46 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Mitanni and Matsya


>
> --- david_russell_watson <liberty@...> wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan"
> > <proto-language@...>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > In any case, the comparative evidence (e.g. HEgy
> > <wr>, 'large',
> > > presents the unextended root from Nostratic.
> >
> > So-called Nostratic "evidence" is unacceptable. The
> > Nostratic
> > theory is an interesting but unproven idea. As of
> > today P.I.E.
> > has no known relatives.
> >
> > David
>
> It goes beyond that into plain irrationality.
> If you're looking for vocabulary links, you look first
> at closely related languages.
> If you lost an outhouse in Arkansas, you don't go look
> for it in Tennessee.
> And if you are going to look at other families, you
> look first at the proto-language. If you don't go back
> to the proto-language, you run the risk of comparing
> koalas to bears, wombats to woodchucks, plesiosaurs to
> whales, etc,

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Right.

That is why I have reconstructed _the_ Proto-Language.

The PL parent is FA-RHE.

Egyptian <w3>, 'far'; Sumerian <ul>, 'distant'

PIE *wer-, 'wide';

with which another PL root has been confused:


PL FA-RO.

Egyptian <wr>, 'large, many'; Sumerian <ul>, 'swell (really 'multiply')'

PIE *wer-(s-), 'tall, large'.

Patrick

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