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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> Vennemann of course want to tie the word in with Semitic:
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Comment: I find the Semitic evidence provided by Vennemann (which you
listed in your posting) seems very compelling! What about the idea
which came up between me and Arnaud, that most agricultural terms in
IE derive from Semitic sources? But it is a problem that the
Semitic-origin idea presupposes the survival of Semitic-speaking
"Atlantic" people well into the early Middle Ages, due to the
unshifted consonants in the Germanic plough-words. Nevertheless the
evidence associated with the Latin city-preparation rites seems more
indirect to me, and the association with "plough" could be a little
forced?
AJ