Unveiling the ancient roots of �thare� and �thale�

Friday, April 29, 2016

Although those who closely follow my column would readily relate thare and thale as only superficially differentiated by the well-known l to r (and r to l) sound-change, they actually have different etymologies this time.

Nevertheless, what does not change is that, contrary to current thinking in etymology, these terms betray vestiges of a universal mother language that allegedly once existed according to Genesis 11.

However, linguists think Indo-European has no ‘genetic’ relation with any other language family…but I will show otherwise.

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