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From: kriha_p@actrix.gen.nz (Paul J. Kriha)
Subject: Re: *MORE* Proto-World!!! (yippeee!)
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In article <3tq0p1$nq3@tardis.trl.OZ.AU>,
   jbm@newsserver.trl.oz.au (Jacques Guy) wrote:
>Culled from sci.archaeology.mesoamerican:
[...]
>Subject: MORE ABOUT SEMITIC ROOTS IN THE RUNA-SIMI LANGUAGE.
[...]

Hi Jacques,

that inspired me to write the following:


    English & Ma-ori Related
    ------------------------

It is well known that Malay and Maori, and English and German,
are related languages and by the recognised principles of 
amateur linguistics we can therefore compare either of one pair
with either of the other.  I am not including real loan words,
and I haven't got a dictionary (it would only confuse me).
Think what I could achive if I spent weeks on it instead of
15 minutes.

burong (Malay)	-	bird

dua (Malay)	-	two

toru		-	three

wha		-	four

tekau (10)	-	the count

ika (fish)	-	ichthyology

ia		-	he

te		-	the

buah (Malay, fruit)
		-	berry

kuching (Malay)	-	cat

tuan (Malay)	-	don (as in Mafia)

ariki (chief)	-	Reich, or perhaps English rich.
			see also Old Irish arig meaning king
			(but I should really check this one)

(and incidentally Ra is Maori for sun, and the Egyptian sun god,
probably they (the lost tribe) went from Europe to the South
Seas via the Suez Canal)


Well, alright I spent a little more time on it than 5 mins:

iti (small)	-	itty-bitty (I'm really proud of this one,
			it seems to me conclusive)
maunga (mountain)	
		-	mound

puke (hill)	-	peak (this is the sort of place where the
			Principle of Bulk Comparison really shines.
			If I went back closer to proto-Austronesian
			I would see that puke is related to Malay
			bukit, which doesn't look nearly as much
			like peak)

wai		-	water

waka		-	canoe (see the 2nd syllable of waka)

ringa (hand)	-	ring

awa		-	Au in Donau, a' in Icelandic (pronounced au),
			a (with o above it) in Swedish and other
			Scandinavian, meaning river (Hang on,
			doesn't this prove Maori is related to
			Basque?)

kereta (Malay)	-	cart

poaka (pig)	-	porker (this looks like a loan word but I'm
			fairly sure I've read that it is a genuine
			Polynesian word and a real coincidence)

pouaka		-	box


Cheers,
Paul JK.
