From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 321
Date: 2003-02-02
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From: <richard.wordingham@...>
To: <Nostratica@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 7:49 PM
Subject: [Nostratica] Re: General Rule
> Have you looked at the meanings on the 100 word list? 'Egg' and
'skin' are Norse, 'give' is more Norse than Old English, 'mountain' is Romance. I will allow that the English word for 'person' is 'man'.
"Root" and "die" are also Norse, "round" is French, and the origin of "big", "kill", "bird" and "dog" is uncertain. An additional complication is that some of the words have changed their meaning completely since Old English, (e.g. "cloud", which used to mean 'a mass of rock').
Piotr