Re: Prenasalization, not ejectives cause of Winter's law?

From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 62005
Date: 2008-12-10

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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>


Orël-Stol'bova: Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary

1008 *g.arub- "darkness"
Sem *g.arb- "sunset, evening":

Akkadian erbu, Hebrew ´ereb, Geez ´arab, Harsusi g.arb.
Cf. *g.VrVb- "be dark": Arab g.rb, Geez ´rb..

Note that *g.urab- "raven, crow" and *g.arub- "darkness" may be
etymologically connected.

Torsten

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I nearly agree

*g.urab- "raven, crow" is to Latin corvus
what
*g.arub- "darkness" is to Latin crep-usculus.

A.