Re: Germanic 'bear'

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski gpiotr@ wrote:
>
> As for Baltic, what do you propose instead?
>
> > I proposed a possible link between BS *tla:k- 'bear' and these words:
> >
> > - Semitic *dalak'/g- ~ *dVk'al- 'marten; wild cat; lynx'
> > - NEC *dVlVgV 'a small wild animal'
> > - Altaic *dorVkV 'a k. of badger'
>

Possibly these words could be analized as a prefix *dV- plus a root *lVk- which I guess corresponds to the one reconstructed by Mallory & Adams as *lo:k´- 'weasel' and ultimately related to PAustro-Asiatic *rO:k 'squirrel'.

I'm sorry if these long-range comparisons would annoy anyone on this list.