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

Quoting John Cowan <cowan@...>:

> Then again, as JRRT mentions, there is the deeply mysterious root
> korb-, which surfaces in Italic as Latin corvus 'raven, crow' and
> in Germanic as "harp"!  What is up with *that*?
Homophony?

> (ModE "harp", BTW, is only partly a descendant of OE "hearpe"; it
> probably owes its vowel to French "harpe", which is itself a
> Common Romance borrowing from Germanic.)
Common Romance = Late Vulgar Latin?

                                                  Andreas

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