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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Two X letters
  • Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:01:22 -0400

Karl,

As far as I understand it there is no such thing as "attested etymologies". How can an etymology be "attested".

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Oct 29, 2007, at 11:22 AM, K Randolph wrote:

Are theories concerning proposed but unattested etymologies of
languages a science at all? Maybe in the post-modern sense where
theory is considered equal to if not more important than evidence
instead of as in modern science where theory is merely a possible
explanation of evidence.





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