Re: tail, dhail, etc.

--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, tisinli@... wrote:

>
>
> I am puzzled to find that English word tail is represented in

Arabic by dhayl

> (the same exact meaning). Furthermore, Turkish yele (mane), yel

(wind),

> yelle- (to fan) all probably come from *dhel . I know that non

secondary y's come

> from an earlier dh, e.g. ayak < adhak, but I am not sure that dhel

is

> attested, therefore I put an * on top.
>
> The point is, tail, dhyal, and *dhel are very similar phonetically

and

> semantically. My question is: is there a Nostratic root these

words can be ascribed

> to?

To complicate matters, the Proto-Indo-European is *doklos. Pokorny
assigns it to root 327 *dek^ which I would gloss as 'attach', but
his opinon appears to be far from accepted.

Richard.