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From: Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "Anthropology" 2008.05.25 (02) [E]

 Dear Theo

Subject: LL-L "Anthropology"

I wrote:
...the root-forms of Basque technical language reach
back to a stone-age culture, with the word 'knife'
for example going back to
the name for 'flint' & 'ceiling' means literally
'the roof of the cave'
You wrote:
I'm a bit sorry,  great Mark,
But is this really an argument?
I mean- example:  most words for cup / bowl and so on
in european languages go back to roots for 'skull'.
Not just the Basques have an history going back to the
stone-age.
[And we are going back to a new stone-age; so let's
remember all those words.]
Great???
Flatterer! Apologies for the late response. You are correct of course. We
all descend from Adam, hey? On the other hand, Indo-Germanic for example can
by its terminological features be (persuasively) traced back to a specific
geographic origin & a specific level of technical sophistication, which, I
am open to correction, includes the use of the plough, or at least the ard,
& beasts of burden.
The 'flint' explanation is not my thesis but that of my Basque conversant,
however I accept it for the reason noted above - as ever, subject to
correction.

Yrs,
Mark

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