Re: proof that most etymologies are only fairy-tales

On Aug 16, 3:38 pm, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So they just magically appear in the reference books without anyone ever
having done the research and written up the analysis that arrives at the
conclusions reported in the reference books? Just because you haven't
seen them doesn't mean they doesn't exist. Meanwhile, stop disagreeing
with things you haven't even seen.

They don't appear "magically" in textbooks,
they have been proposed: bear as the brown
one (from *bher- brown) and bear as the wild one
(from *gwer-), but I don't see anyone in sci.lang
defend one of these etymologies, nor propose
another one, and above all Mallory and Adams
2006 don't mention any etymology of English
bear German Bär Dutch beer. So there is no
convincing etymology, a fact all the aggressive
and humiliating replies to me can't conceal,
on the contrary, all your aggressive and
humiliating replies, and the killrating campaign,
confirm my opinion. Centuries of IE and PIE
studies involving thousands of scholars, and
still no convincing etymology of English bear
German Bär Dutch beer ...
.

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