Re: Evidence for Nostratic? (was Re: Proto-Uralic?)

Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> En réponse à John Cowan :
>
>
> >It's not 100% clear that dent- originally meant "tooth".  Its formal
> >English equivalent "tine" (< ME "tind", as in JRRT's "Tindrock") means
> >"sharp projection", as on a fork, and has no connection with eating.
>
> For what is worth, in French such a thing is called "dent", meaning
> definitely "tooth", which for me is no different from talking about the
> "foot" of a mountain.
Swedish forks have _tänder_, which word normally means "teeth".

                                                  Andreas

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