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From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Subject: Re: Pre-Proto-World Unveiled
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Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 19:57:20 GMT
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I'm taking out the cats, about which I've nothing to say at the moment.

In article <3kq4bo$id7@tardis.trl.OZ.AU> jbm@newsserver.trl.oz.au (Jacques Guy) writes:
>Siouan       tipi  (need I translate this?)
>Austronesian atep  "roof"

The /t p/ root is one of my favourites.  Did you say `roof'?
Well, here are a few others:

Egyptian  _tp_      `head, top, roof (of building)'
Shawnee  _-tepe=-_  `(locus on) head'
Turkish   _tepe_    `hill, peak; crown (of head)'
Nahuatl   _tepe-tl_ `mountain'
English   _top_     (need I translate this?)
English   _tip_     (need I translate this?)

So how do we derive them all from *_ana_, Jacques?

-- 
`"Haud oan there a meenit," says the king tae Joseph, "I've been thinkin."'
Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)    (J Stuart, _Auld Testament Tales_)
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