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

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Thursday, July 10, 2003, 15:30
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From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
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Subject: 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".
I assume that's cognate with 'teeth', though. Remember English, Low German, Dutch and Frisian all lost proto-Germanic *n before Fricatives. And I think in Norwegian, Swedish and Danish there was a *þ>d shift.
> Andreas >

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