Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!qantel!dual!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!seismo!mcvax!aeb From: aeb@mcvax.UUCP (Andries Brouwer) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: False cognates Message-ID: <736@mcvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 16:09:09 EDT Article-I.D.: mcvax.736 Posted: Fri Jul 5 16:09:09 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 05:27:52 EDT References: <277@mit-athena.UUCP> Reply-To: aeb@mcvax.UUCP (Andries Brouwer) Distribution: net.nlang Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 8 In article <277@mit-athena.UUCP> jc@mit-athena.UUCP (John Chambers) writes: >There are some languages in West Africa (I forget for the moment which >ones) which contain a word pronounced much like English "bad", and which >means the same thing. You are referring to Persian. What about the Danish kalde 'to call' ? (The 'd' is not pronounced, but the vowels are not the same.)