Re: Basic lexicon

>> http://www.df.lth.se/~cml/swadesh.txt says:
>>> Note that the list in English contains at first glance only
>>> two words of Latin/Romance origin (person and mountain).
> Anton Sherwood <bronto@...> wrote:
>> At second glance I find `animal', `flower', `fruit', `lake', `push',
>> `river', `vomit'.
Vasiliy Chernov wrote:
> Add: because, count, dig, turn (I *think* there are a couple more).
<dig>?!  (looking...)  Ah.  Through French from Germanic.  *whew*
Related to <ditch> and <dyke>, of course.


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Now how about the linguistic origins of <Morris Swadesh>?
<Swadesh> looks like Hindi(?) `of his own country'.  <Morris> is
anglicized French; and is common among American Jews of his age.
Have I fallen for a false cognate, or is there a story in that?


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Anton Sherwood  --  http://www.ogre.nu/

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