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From: kriha_p@actrix.gen.nz (Paul J. Kriha)
Subject: Re: Basque-Slav Similarities
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In article <3n7054$l5k@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>,
   mwilton@ix.netcom.com (Mike Wilton) wrote:
>A BASQUO -- SLAV POEM
>by Petr Jandacek
>
>	When pottery was yet to be and fields were not yet plowed, 
>and copper had no useful form our tongues had not evolved -
>How spoke the folk in Europe's past who'd hunt and forage there?
>CRO MAGNON'S Tongues were BASQUO -- SLAV a theory we must share !!!!
>
>"GORI" was the word "TO BURN" as still it is today
>in SLAVIC and in BASQUE languages to "experts'" great dismay.
>"GORA..." in both BASQUE and SLAVIC means "UPWARD" and/or "MOUND",
>and "REKA": SLAV - "erREKA" : BASQUE, is "RIVER" - - said aloud.
>
>Female figures with BELLIES heaved and ample BUTTOCKS, BOSOMS - round,
>Ice age sculptors' hands had formed and modern scholars now had found.
>They call the "VENUS" as a rule and ponder what's their role..
>why fecund features bloated are? what purpose the control?
>"IPURDI" is the BASQUE for "BUTT" "MOLOKOT"'s "BUST" in BASQUE,
>"ZILBOT" is "BELLY" in that tongue, we thought you'd never ask...
>"PRDEL" is "BUTTOCKS" for the Czechs 
>"MOLOKO"'s Russian "MILK",
>"ZHIVOT" is Russian for "BELLY",
>...quite similar we think!
>PRIMITIVE VENUS' features are near identical in name
>among the BASQUE and SLAVIC folks WHY SHOULD THESE WORDS BE SAME?
> 
>"LOKarri" - BASQUE: "LOK", "LUK", or such are SLAVIC for the "BOW".
>"AIZKORA: - BASQUE: "SEKERA" - SLAV, IS "AXE" .... that you would know.
>
>Trading such goods as "cavemen" had needed a "BARTER PLACE",
>Slovenian "TRG", in Basque it's "TRUK" - business of MARKET days.
>"TARG", "TRH", or such are other forms that SLAVIC TONGUES provide for 
>swapping 
>early cultures' wares on Pyrenees' far side.
>"PEGAR" in BASQUE, "POHAR" in Czech, that's what a "GOBLET" is.
>Slovak - "POHAR", for Poles "PUCHAR" ....the point is hard to miss!!!
>
>Diminutives for BASQUES and SLAVS are formed with suffix : "CHKA".
>It's found in words for "LITTLE SPOON" like ZHLICHKA / ZALICHKA !
>For Czechs and Slovaks "LITTLE TUBE" is called a "HADICHKA".
>Why, pray tell, the BASQUES would call it also "HODICHKA" ? ? ?
>If more such facts you'd like to learn of BASQUE AND SLAVIC ties...
>then write to us, and we will send you BOUNTIFUL SUPPLIES.
>
>The words for "NUT", "OREH" for SLAVS, and "URRA" for the BASQUES
>suggest the shelling of such treats as Ice Age winters' tasks.
>Great volumes more we have on hand for those who would applaud ...
>and those who think we are "NUTS" --- please show us where we're 
>flawed!!!
>If you should ask and thus receive a packet of our stuff-
>then promise us, and share with your pleasure or rebuff.
>
>For more information, E-Mail BASQUO-SLAVIC PROJECT c/o 
>mwilton@ix.netcom.com or 
>mail
>E-Mail BASQUO-SLAVIC PROJECT
>(Jandacek, Masarikova, Arko et al)
>127 La Senda
>Los Alamos, NM   87544 USA
>

This is all childish linguistics.  What you are quoting
here are just superficial and accidental similarities.
You can do that with any two languages in the world.
If you want to prove anything tangible you have to follow the
ethymology of the words to demonstrate common cognates.

Just one 'impressive' example you quote:
Slavic "HADICKA" means the same as Basque "HODICKA"? Terrific.
HADICKA is derivative (feminine diminutive) of HAD (a snake).

Now if you really wanted to prove any relationship between
Czech and Basque you would have to show that a snake in
Basque is "HAD" or "HOD".  If it is, it could still be 
a co-incidence.  You would have to show then that the
Czech HAD is NOT derived from any Indo-European cognate.
And there you would get stuck, children.
The non-IE words in Czech are almost exclusively late imports
(within last 1000years) from the Ugro-Finn family.


Cheers,
Paul.
