Re: Are *dHeg^Hom and adamah cognates?

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

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> > Could we assume that PIE *dHeg^Hom "earth" and Semitic 'DM "earth

are cognates? Could we infer a common Nostratic source? Or some mutual
influence? In both languages there's the pair earthly being
(human)/earth, cf. homo/humus and adam/adamah. Is there another language
where the word for "man" mean "earthly"?

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> > Joao S. Lopes
>
> I've seen that before and I'm surprised that Ruhlen hasn't run with

it, along with English earth and Hebrew erets

>

I think it would rather fall within Bomhard's parcel, as this is one of
the "Nostratic" words brought to Europe by Neolithic farmers from the
Near East.