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proto-language
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Thu Feb 8 04:04:15 UTC 2001
Dear Gabor and IEists:
----- Original Message -----
From: Gabor Sandi
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 2:55 PM
<snip>
Pursuing the matter, I checked in Burrow & Emeneau's Dravidian Etymological
Dictionary (DED), which has about eight root-sets with "cat" words in them.
Item 4520 looks - at least to a naive observer - as a possible indication of
Dravidian substratum origin: Tamil veruku 'tom-, wild-cat', Kannada berku,
bekku 'cat'.
[PR]
You might be interested in knowing that at Sergei Starostin's website:
http://iiasnt.leidenuniv.nl/cgi-bin/main.cgi?flags=eygnnnl
has Proto-Dravidian *bil-, 'cat',
which I would compare to an IE 8. *wel-, 'catch' (Greek hali'skomai); also
seen, perhaps, in Greek aie'louros, 'tom-cat'.
Pat
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