Re: Clueless roolz...

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

>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alexandru Moeller" <alxmoeller@...>
>
> >> ====
> >> Nice idea
> >>
> >> For example
> >> Germanic *sajwa "sea, lake"
> >> Cf. Kartvelian zGva "sea, lake"
> >>
> >> Or
> >> German Igel "hedgehog"
> >> Cf. Kartvelian zGar
> >>
> >> Arnaud
> >>
> >> ==========
> >
> >
> >
> > yes but the phonetical correspondances and the semantism of the
> > words are very clear and one can hardly consider such pairs as
> > being coincidences. I am not sure this can be said about Germanic-
> > Kartvelian.
> >
> > best regards
> >
> > Alexandru Moeller
> >
> ==============
> Sea, lake = sea, lake
> Is it not "very clear" ?
>
> s = z
> a = o
> j = G
> w = v
> a = a
>
> When is it "one can hardly consider such a pair as being a
> coincidence" ?
> According to you.
>
> Arnaud
>
> =========
>

I am afraid I was not very clear in what I was pointing to. Please
read as follow:

> > yes but the phonetical correspondances and the semantism of the
> > words are very clear and one can hardly consider such pairs
> > (Albanian-Romanian) as being coincidences. I am not sure this
> > can be said about Germanic- Kartvelian.

For Germanic-Kartvelian, I am not competent to say something about
but I am sure, if this is true, then you can show 5-6 examples for
each phonetic and semantic correspondance. I am not the one to ask
for, I just pointed out that a rule shuld be validated by several
exemples (5-6).

best regards

Alexandru Moeller