Richard Wordingham wrote:

--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "H.M. Hubey" <hubeyh@...> wrote:
> Thus for instance the name we use for
> > translating the name of Egypt - eg. "Kemet" meaning "the Black
Land",
> > is in fact KMT.  It is modern Egyptologists who have added
> > the "kEmEt" where "E" stands in place of an unknown vowel.  This
> > makes it almost totally impossible to work out how Egyptian was
> > *actually* spoken.  T
>
> The root can be seen in many languages including Turkic and Nilo-
Saharan
> and it has
> to do with "burning" which is also at the root of words for "black"
in
> various languages
> including Gr. kelainos(?), Dravidian kala, Turkic kara.

The semantics are amusing.  The 'black land' is the part which is
flooded by the Nile, as opposed to the 'red land', which is unwatered
desert.

What do the words above have in common with Egyptian <kmt> besides an
inital /k/?.  /k/ is generally the commonest plosive.

What is this supposed to mean? Someone (Pokorny) decided he found the laws of the
universe of linguistics. All he did was find some patterns and he invented some more
patterns. There are more invented words in IE than real words. Every time there is a word
shared by two subfamilies someone invents a root. I found other patterns.

> The words like
> cook, kitchen etc
> are all from this root.

Are you aware that the PIE root of these is *pekW-?  (Pokorny root
1466).

It is possible that there was p>t>k as I have written many times. I  have also given
lots of examples of it e..g pish, parsh, etc etc. The immediate root of the words
I gave starts with k. There are too many to ignore. Besides, even Watkins (using
Pokorny) gives those etymologies and explanations in some cases e.g. Gk kelainos etc.

> That includes Tocharian kuM, Turkic kUn (sun),
> Turkic kuyash,
> etc. Turkic would be *kuyun > kun, kuyum> kum, etc.

Again, what do these have in common with Egyptian kmt?

You are a statistician, right. And I assume you do believe that correlation-regression
means something. In that case, there is no need to become obsessed with
heuristics that pass for Prob Theory 001 e.g multiplication of probabilities.

Richard.



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