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From: "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
To: <nostratic@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [nostratic] Re: AA and IE


>
> John Croft, concerning the "lamb/sheep" word (IS-173 *kOr'i)
> >Then how do you explain its appearance in Altaic, Turkish and
> >Mongolian
>
> First of all, Turkish and Mongolian are part of the Altaic
> family too, so we need only leave it at "its appearance in Altaic".
> Second of all, what is the basis for the reconstruction
> of such a sheep word in Altaic? Is the basis a realistic one
> or is it based on a comparison of what are actually late loanwords
> that have entered into the Altaic languages independently? I
> presume the latter. Thoughts?


I think I should give here the rest of the Illich-Svitych's article for #
173.
I omit the AfroAsiatic data, as I reported them earlier.

Dravidian: kori/kuri 'sheep'
Tamil kori; Malayalam kori 'a kind of small sheep'; Kota kory ar (ar
'goat'); Toda kury; Kannada kuri 'sheep' , kori 'ram'; Kodagu 'kori', Tulu
kuri;
Telugu gore 'sheep' , gorre 'small antilope';
Kolami gorre; Konda gorja 'goat'; Kuvi gorri, gori;

Altaic: *kur'i/kor'i 'lamb'
Turkic: kor'y/kur'y 'lamb' - Tuvinian kuzaga 'kid'; Old-Uighurian and
Chagatai qozy; Uighurian koza; Uzbek kuzi; Kirghiz kozu; Kazhakh and Noghai
kozy; Tartar kuzy (<*kozy); Turkmen guzy; Azerbaydzhan guzu; Turkish and
Gagauz kuzu;
Mongolic: *kuri-gan 'lamb' - Mongolian qurigan; Ordosian xurga, Khalkha
xurag/xurga, Mongor xorga; Buryat xuragan; Kalmyk xurgn;
Evenkian kurkan < Mong.var. qurgan;

Alexander