etymacct123

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by etymacct123 8y ago
there is no dna that encodes for language how europeans got their language is not our problem neither the yamnaya r1b z2103 nor sintashta r1a z2125 amounted to much in world history and the sintashtans were just scythians or what we called
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by etymacct123 8y ago
of course but PIE is an imagined language with an imaginary date of 2500 BC lack of any attestation kills all PIE claims whereas sanskrit is a solidly real language with a lot of evidence that it dates back to 4th millennium BC or even much
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by etymacct123 8y ago
ok but postulating chinese called it rice first and then switched to mi but rest of world kept it as rice is a stretch rice entered europe as oryza not all that long ago and the link to tamil arici is straightforward and heavy trade existed
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by etymacct123 8y ago
it is not just similar sounds ctrl f supa in the link above i believe the dish described is basically the same and the arthashastra in any case outclasses all other attestations even if you take western dating the pushback on this etymology
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by etymacct123 8y ago
actually genetic evidence is for multiple centres of domestication with later mixing providing a link for this is what got me accused last time so just search for how old is indian agriculture on your fave search engine in any case the chin
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by etymacct123 8y ago
not to mention rice is an indian word as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice#Etymology but last time i tried mentioning that someone accused me of hindu nationalism and the banhammer was gonna fall
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by etymacct123 8y ago
not just curry but soup is also indian! of course completely denied by the west so far soup is from sanskrit supa attested in arthashastra of kautilya dated to 1st millennium BC by westerners and 2nd millennium BC by indians see link for sp