Re: Afro-Asiatic substrate

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

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> Vennemann gave a convincing Semitic etymology for 'folk'
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/48772
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/48897

How about an Altaic etymology?

*pialag fortress, group of houses

http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=/data/alt/altet&text_number=1645&root=config