D Tse scripsit:
[English]
> "A doggy stole a sausage
[Czech]
> >Pes jaternic`ku sez`ral (The dog ate a little sausage)
[snip]
> >If more versions will be available,
> >the reconstruction of the ancient myth behind this song
> >will be more accurate.
Well, since the word for "sausage" is not reconstructible for
PIE, much less Nostratic, I think that knocks the inheritance
theory on the head. There remains borrowing as a far more
likely hypothesis.
> > Pavel
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