Re: Graavgaaln elements
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 25, 1999, 23:12 |
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FFlores wrote:
> What does aluminium have to do with feathers?
Both are light?
> Also, _siangai_ is the scientific name of the pure element "carbon",
> reborrowed from the protolanguage /@'SaNgaI/. "Coal" is the usually
> derived form, _tha`ng_ /Ta:Ng/.
Borrowed from the *proto*language? How would that happen? A
protolanguage is one that is reconstructed, because it wasn't written
down. Do you mean the ancestral language?
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