indoeuropean

[Esra Oden]

On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:44:48 +0200 "Eduard Selleslagh" <edsel at glo.be>
writes:

>[Ed Selleslagh]

>I would like to add a related question that has been bugging me for a long
>time:  Classic Greek 'cheir' and Neo-Greek '(to) cheri' have a cognate in
>Kartvelian (Georgian, S. Caucasus) 'cheli' (ch = khi, ach-laut).  Does any of
>you have an explanation?

>Ed.

>[ Moderator's comment:
>  If it is a cognate, that *is* the explanation.  Or do you mean simply that
>  there is an *apparent* cognate (which would more properly be discussed on
>  the Nostratic list)?
>  --rma ]

Esra Oden writes:
This Kartvelian cognate may be a borrowing from the Pontic Greek spoken
in S. Caucasus along the Georgian border of Turkey.