'fnd' (mountain) ====> *bend was Re: Basque mendi 'mountain'

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

>
> > I really appreciate your efforts, but I think you should perhaps
> > consider Arabic as the receptor instead of the donor in the case of
> > this and other words.
>
> You do realize that this amounts to a claim that Arabic is not the

original language of the area around Mecca and Medina?

>

AFAIK there're quite a bunch of Arabic words without Semitic cognates,
but they could Wanderwörter as likely as substrate loanwords.
However, I've detected genuine Semitic words which are Vasco-Caucasian
loanwords, likely indicating a language replacement in the Near East
area.