Talk:Urbian

No Quick Delete

Don't delete this without putting it back where it came from under Neolithic Europe.

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Isn't this just another nostratic theory, based on a few word similarities? 惑乱分からん 14:22, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's more a substrate theory. It doesn't connect living languages but languages hypothetically existing before Indo-European expansion. It talks about what was (hypothetically) there before IE languages and how it was incorporated into some of them. --Sugaar 18:31, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone else feel like writing "Either that or lacking a word for 'city', the Latins invented one that just happened to be slightly like a Basque word"? Because like most similar theories, this one is back-arseward. Grace Note 05:29, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Uri seems to come from Celtic Ure meaning bull and has nothing to do with Urbs, Iri, Hiri... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.79.141.141 (talk) 20:09, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ui, that's quite something. I generally like his work, it's maybe a bit close to the fringe but interesting. But this here is rather silly. Let's reconstruct another language due to a few uncertain equations of just one word! Trigaranus (talk) 08:17, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just woah. Pseudoetymology at its finest. Using his "method", and the latitudes he allows, you can connect any word with any other word. In the cited comparison, some items are proper names whose meaning is completely obscure, or random chunks taken out from etymologically unclear appellatives! That said, I wonder why Urbillum is mentioned and not simply the Sumerian word for "city", something like uru, iri or ürü (note the umlauts, which constitute compelling proof that Sumerian is a Turkic language – yes, I'm being sarcastic here). --Florian Blaschke (talk)

Hittite Urai, "large"

There is also a Hittite word, urai, meaning "large". Alex (talk) 05:02, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]