[gothic-l] Re: Totila rec

[Dicentis a roellingua@gmail.com [gothic-l]]

Ah yes, I already thought something like that. I was just joking :P

2014-12-21 8:10 GMT+01:00 Yair Davidiy britam at netvision.net.il [gothic-l] <
gothic-l at yahoogroups.com>:

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> At 12:05 AM 12/21/2014, you wrote:
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> It is not unheard of to find words of similar form and meaning in wildly
> differing languages. The Japanese word for 'name' is 'namaj,' but this does
> not mean that Japanese and English nouns are related or even that Japanese
> borrowed the word from English, or vice versa. This is simply an example of
> meaningless coincidence.
> Edmund
> Posted by: edmundfairfax at yahoo.ca
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> Fair enough. Maybe.
> Aramaic was one of the official languages of the Assyrian Empire and  the
> lingua franca of both the Persian and Assyrian Empires.
> Cimmerian and Scythian mercenaries were in Assyrian employ;
> Assyrians (or mercenaries in Assyrian service) in the Caucasus and beyond
> it, possibly in southern Russia.
> *Ethnic and cultural interchanges between Scandinavia and the eastern
> Mediterranean existed, see:*Cambridge University Press0521604664 - The
> Rise of Bronze Age Society: Travels, Transmissions and Transformations,
> Kristian Kristiansen and Thomas B. Larsson
>  https://www.academia.edu/294246/The_Rise_of_Bronze_Age_Society
> For one commonly used word of administrative importance?
> How much more do you need?
> Yair Davidiy,
> Beitar Ilit
> Israel
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