LL-L: "Celtic connections" LOWLANDS-L, 30.OCT.1999 (05) [E]

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Lowlanders,

Sorry this just went out under the wrong subject line ("Multilingualism").
People shouldn't cook, bake and manage lists all at the same time.

The real "Multiligualism" should follow this one.

Regards,

Reinhard/Ron

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From: John M. Tait [jmtait at altavista.net]
Subject: LL-L: "Celtic connections" LOWLANDS-L, 26.OCT.1999 (06) [E]

Ian wrote:

>There are, to follow on from what Ron said, some major splits within the IE
>languages. If we take English "hound", German "Hund" we find Irish "cu",
>Latin "canis", I believe a similar Greek word,

Kuwn (w = omega, long [o:])- origin of _cynic_, from _kunikos_, dog-like.

John M. Tait.

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