Re: 'dyeus'

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 66540
Date: 2010-09-06

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

> Yeniseian definitely looks non-Nostratic compared to everything around it. I
> don't see the "trademark" *mi-*ti/*bi-*ti. What am I missing? I definitely don't
> want to diss Stefan, but why does he see it as Eurasian? Or is he just signaling
> its location?

Stefan Georg's view is very much a minority view. The more widely accepted view is that it is related to the Na-Dene languages, with some suggestions that it might even be Na-Dene proper.

Richard.