[gothic-l] Re: Totila rec

Mon Dec 22 02:09:42 UTC 2014

I've found this web page to be very useful in understanding chance similarities between unrelated languages: 
How likely are chance resemblances between languages?

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You can skip the statistical formulas if you're so inclined, but the article does a great job at explaining probabilities, and how many "cognates" you can expect when looking over two random languages.   Sigi 

     On Sunday, 21 December 2014, 18:29, "Dicentis a roellingua at gmail.com [gothic-l]" <gothic-l at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

     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>:

     At 12:05 AM 12/21/2014, you wrote:

It is not unheard of to find words of similar form and meaning in wildlydiffering languages. The Japanese word for 'name' is 'namaj,' but thisdoes not mean that Japanese and English nouns are related or even thatJapanese borrowed the word from English, or vice versa. This is simply anexample of meaningless coincidence.
Edmund
Posted by: edmundfairfax at yahoo.ca 

Fair enough. Maybe.
Aramaic was one of the official languages of the Assyrian Empireand  the lingua franca of both the Persian and AssyrianEmpires.
Cimmerian and Scythian mercenaries were in Assyrian employ;
Assyrians (or mercenaries in Assyrian service) in the Caucasus and beyondit, possibly in southern Russia.

Ethnic and cultural interchanges between Scandinavia and theeastern Mediterranean existed, see:
CambridgeUniversity 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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