Mark wrote

> For example. See English "cleave" (kliv) vs Turkic kIlIw (from
> *kIdh, from which we also get words like kIy, kIs, kIl (e.g. kIlIch
> =sword). This is from a Nostratic word I am sure and related to
> kes, cut, kuer, etc.

Cleave in fact comes from the Old English "cleofan", and thence from
the Old Saxon *klioban, and ultimately related to the Germanic
*kleubhan (cognates are Old High German "kliuban" and Old
Norse "kljufa". Apart from the "kl" - there is not much relationship
to Turkish at all. Unfortunately my book on Nostratic roots cannot
be found at the moment so I cannot check the *kl- in Nostratic at the
moment.

> Or English slice (slays) vs Turkic sIlI (to slice) sIlIsh (act of
> slicing).

Modern English "slice" comes from the French "eslicier" - meaning "to
splinter", and ultimately perhaps from the Frankish "slītjan" meaning =

to slit. "Slay" comes from the Old English "slēan", from the
Germanic *slah- or *slag- (cognate with Old Norse "slà" and
Gothic "slahan"). As such slay and slice (although seeming to come
from the same source) in fact have very different meanings. I'll get
back to you about the Nostratic *sl- root (if there is one).

> There are many of these.

Mark wrote

> And many consonants still existing in Turkic have been lost in
> Akkadian and it occurs regularly; e.g. many many examples, and
> these are much better than the AA-IE alleged cognates.

I have trouble understanding what you are saying here Mark. All
languages have different phonemes and there are some consonants in
Afro-Asiatic and Indo-European languages that are not in Turkic and
vice versa.

Regards

John