AW: Basque and Tamil related?

B. Schlerath Schlerath at T-ONLINE.DE
Sat Nov 25 06:45:46 UTC 2000


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Raman
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Can anybody in the list tell me if it is a pure coincidence, or it is due to
some other reason, that there is a marked resemblance between the Greek and
Tamil words for "old": palaios and palaiya?
V. V. Raman
November 24, 2000

Greek palaios is a derivation from an Indo-European root *kuel- "far
(away)", from the same root comes Skt. carama- "the outermost, last". - So
the resemblance disappears.
Regards B. Schlerath, Berlin





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