Dear Danny and Nostraticists:

PATRICK C. RYAN | PROTO-LANGUAGE@...
(501) 227-9947 * 9115 W. 34th St. Little Rock, AR 72204-4441 USA
WEBPAGES: PROTO-LANGUAGE: http://www.geocities.com/proto-language/
and PROTO-RELIGION:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2803/proto-religion/indexR.html

"Veit ec at ec hecc, vindgá meiði a netr allar nío,
geiri vndaþr . . . a þeim meiþi, er mangi veit,
hvers hann af rótom renn." (Hávamál 138)

----- Original Message -----
From: proto-language
To: nostratic@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: [nostratic] An online Afro-Asiatic database

Dear Danny and Nostraticists:

 

----- Original Message -----
From: Danny Wier
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: [nostratic] An online Afro-Asiatic database

Care to share with the rest of the class?  ~DaW~
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: [nostratic] An online Afro-Asiatic database

Dear Danny:
 
Thank you for the link.
 
I know Gene Gragg from the 70's.
 
I wrote to him with a few thoughts.
 
 
Pat
 
Just to congratulate him on being appointed to be Director of the Oriental Institute.
 
I also mentioned that, in their index, no cognizance had been taking of the idea that Egyptian 3 was an [r]-sound, and that this was pretty standard thinking by now.
 
Thus, 3b.t, 'family', is related to IE *eibh-, 'procreate', and 3bw, 'elephant', to Old Indian iba-H, 'elephant'.
 
He mentioned that no work to update the site had been done since 1997 but that he anticipated work on it sometime within the next year.
 
 
 
OOPS! I forgot to mention that 3b.t and 3bw should be read jjb.t and jjbw.
 
The rib or half-moon is the proper Egyptian sign for 3b (really 3jb).
 
Sorry about that. I got into a hurry and lost the train of thought before pressing SEND.
 
Pat