Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)


Franz Gnaedinger wrote:
Yusuf B Gursey wrote:

but Tawran (T emphatic) means "at one turn".

not only is the initial wrong, but you put it into the accusative.

An Arabic linguist helped Saul Levin with the Arabic
words in his book from 1995. I can't possibly render
the signs here. He uses a special sign for T in that word.
I don't find all these extra signs on the keybord. And I have
already a lot of problems with ä and ö that are turned into
silly signs by some computers, so that I use just simple
notations, occasionally also simplifying French,
qu'est-ce-que -- qesc. And yes, the accusative is right,
for Saul Levin bases his model case on accusatives,
Greek tauron, Latin taurum, Arabic ---

classical arabic *th*awr just has an ordinary unvoiced <th> as in
"thing" . I use the stars to indicate the presence of a diagraph.


Regards Franz Gnaedinger

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