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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread From I-E to Eskimo #105713 06/14/2003 11:20 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta The discussion on another board I frequent may be of interest to AWAD-ites. It started with whether there was any connection between the Indo-European and Semitic languages and has now deviated to the Eskimo words for snow chestnut. http://forums.about.com/ab-ancienthist/messages/?msg=3224.1 I came across this authoritative-looking reference for a discussion on the Eskimos and snow topic: http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/Misc/eskimo-snow-words.html Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: From I-E to Eskimo #105714 06/15/2003 12:42 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Boy that about.com forum is a pain to navigate. Combines all the worst features of flatline and threaded. I have another site that challenges the eskimo vocabulary hoax thesis. If I can find it, I'll post it. I think it's bookmarked only on my work machine. Lists maybe about 40 some odd eskimo lexemes for snow. Maybe. It gets a little hard to tell in polysynthetic languages (or whatever they're calling them these days) what *is a lexeme. As for the English, I have trouble considering these: snow fort snow house snow man as separate lexemes for snow. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: From I-E to Eskimo #105715 06/15/2003 3:02 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 And all the names the skiers use. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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