Re: Nostratic and Proto-World (Dravidian *ken.- or *kan-??)

On Sat, 19 May 2001 06:18:24 , "Glen Gordon"
<glengordon01@...> wrote:

>I have found *ken.- amongst Starostin's Dravidian roots.
>Unfortunately I am no judge of their validity no more than
>Piotr, but I'm rather unimpressed with his flimsy Altaic
>etymologies. His views on a close relationship between NWC and
>NEC are so unlikely to me the more I examine the idea. Starostin
>reconstructs voiced stops for Dravidian (!) which seems just a
>tinge anti-establishment. Perhaps there is a Dravidianologist
>amongst us that can aid us with these roots.

The entries on Starostin's website are from Burrow and Emeneau's
Dravidian Etymological Dictionary. Last I heard, Burrow and Emeneau
did not provide asterisked reconstructions for their items, just the
data from the different branches of Dravidian, so the *Proto-Dravidian
is probably Starostin's.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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