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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Easter and Passover
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In article <smryanD7A5oF.H6E@netcom.com> smryan@netcom.com (Ahmed) writes:

>(I read reduplicated IE *kwe-kwel 'wheel' was borrowed into Asia Minor as
>kukel/... Was *gwow 'cow' borrowed the other way?)

Why do you ask about *g{^w}ou-?  That is, it's got a long history in IE, so
what would lead you to as this?
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
