> > I seem to remember someone here mentioning a work on Proto-Semitic by the
> > same people who have that index of Indo-European roots in the back of
> > their English dictionary.
> >
> The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. There is a
> link to their online list of semitic roots at
>
http://www.bartleby.com/61/ . I haven't looked at the semitic roots,
> but the indo-european roots have been a resource for several of us.
>
> - andrew.
I was just reading over the intro stuff about semitic languages then went to
the page on Akkadian and realized that the language I have been working on for
the last few days is very semitic, and it wasn't even intentional.