Jammer Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Add to that that root sounds as languages
> developed were usually phonetically descriptive.
>
> By that I mean "sssnake!" doesn't require a lot of
> imagination as to root source...
>
> So different and unrelated languages probably
> shared many root syllables to describe the same
> concept even with no interaction. Admittedly as
> the language developed and evolved many of these
> commonalities disappeared or submerged into more
> complicated syllables.
>
> But to find a dozen or so shared out of all the
> different possible arrangements doesn't surprise
> anyone. It would be more shocking if NO similar
> words were discovered.
---------------------------------
Hello Jammer,

I noticed these dozen or so many years ago. Rather than form an opinion on such a small sampling, I decided to investigate further. That is also why I mentioned the possibility of parallel evolution. By working from numerical sequences, one can remove large portions of "chance" from the equation. As it turns out, the numeric sequences tie in to the directions and so forth. Nothing arbitrary there. Either it fits or it doesn't.

You mentioned sssnake, reminding me of a curious "coincidence" I have no explanation for. The Seminole word for snake was sittee. The word for tooth was chanati. Thus a "snake tooth" would be a "chanati-sittee", or ch-n-t-s-t. The reverse of this would be t-s-t-n-ch, which is consistent with tastanachi, or tastanakhi, the Seminole word for "warrior". Some here will be familiar with the Phoenician/Greek legends, in which the hero "sows the serpents tooth, and a warrior springs up from the ground". Cadmus, Jason etc.

Another curious coincidence maybe someone here has an idea about. The Hebrew alphabetic count down and the AE Egyptian ascending pantheon.

Qoph---resh---shin---tav
-------Re-----Shu---Tefnut---Geb