From: tgpedersen
Message: 62683
Date: 2009-01-31
>The meaning is "inferior meat", that which hunter-gatherers can
> >
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> > I'm afraid this is more the way you work,
>
> Actually, this is from Schrijver.
>
> > lumping together words with some look-alike structure
> > and looking for some obscure substratic connection.
>
> Circular. You assume as given there is no substrate, therefore the
> listed words are unrelated, therefore there is no substrate.
>
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> The first issue is the absence of relationship between fish-roe,
> excrement, calf of leg, vulva and the rest.
> Before talking about substrate, it would be nice to have a "word"
> and a word is basically a "meaning" plus a "sound" (plus a
> syntactical class)
> There's no meaning here.
> A.
> ==========
> > The word "urine" is pan-UralicDid you read what I wrote?
>
> Which Schrijver seems to ignore, although he quotes UEW, which leads
> him to claim independence for the substrate he finds.
>
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> Lumping together words without any analysis is an absurd method.
> It's absurdity not independence.
> A.
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> > What's the problem with IE 951 *s-keu :In Chinese? I don't get it.
> > lat. cutis `Haut'; cunnus `pudendum muliebre' (*kut-nos);
> > hence
> > Latvian
> > ku:se "Schamhaare; weibliche Scham",
> > ku:sa "Schamhaare",
> > ku:sis "Schamhaare, weibl. Scham"
> > Lithuanian:
> > ku:s^i-s "(Haarbüschel über der) weibl. Scham"
> >
> > Basque, LW
> > High Navarrese: (Baztan) ema-kuntza "vulva (of cattle)"
> >
> See Schrijver's discussion below why it can't be IE.
>
>
> > Plus with -r- infix :
> > Irish croth f. `Bauch, uterus, vulva' < *kru:t
>
> IE r-infix??
> I'd rather assume initial consonant cluster reduction.
>
> =======
> I prefer infix.
> This is a regular IE root.
> CvC CrvC ClvC CvnC are regular.
> A.
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