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From: "proto-language" <proto-language@...>
To: <nostratic@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [nostratic] An online Afro-Asiatic database
Dear Glen and Nostraticists:
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From: "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
To: <nostratic@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 8:39 PM
Subject: [nostratic] An online Afro-Asiatic database
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>
> Pat:
> > 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',
[GG]
> To my knowledge, connecting Egyptian directly to IE is not
> standard thinking either. And what is a "cognizance"?
[PCRp]
Sorry, I did not realize that English was not your native language. "Cognizance" is French "connaisance". Do you not have an English dictionary either?
Well, as for *eibh-, and **jjb.t, the Nostratic form would be *?ayep?^w.
[PCR]
Sorry, I meant to write *ayep?f^w.
Pat
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