--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>"
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> jar- tar-, nar-, par-, bar-, sar-, sr- [j&r, t&r-]
>
> all this from Munda kaC- ? Burushaski has the same k/s^ alternation
> in these loanwords. No s^a- in Munda.

Not quite true. I just found one example of it in Witzel's article.

>All seems to point to Para-
> Munda as the source of the words (although etymologies haven't

always

> been found).
>
>
> One horrible consequence of this is that the international wheel
> *kWel- and the internatinal dog *kWon- get eaten up by the prefix.

One more quote from the article:
(of Munda) "the use of k-n- is secure in the name of domesticated
animals"

> A few more for the collection: "Sudanic" kòrekore "sphere",
> Sandawe /koro, /huru "twirl, bore a hole", Kpelle k&l& "skin"

Southern Bushman kwekwere "ball"
Hausa k'wallo "ball"

Southern Bushman //kara "horns" (dual.)

Various Suthern and Central Bushman
=/kara
//kadi
k'ariba
//kai "scorpion"

>
> Torsten