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==yellow yolk==
Anyone out there know what the -ca is doing (and additional examples of it) in the Old English word geoloca 'yolk', derived from geolo 'yellow'? [[User:Tibetologist|Tibetologist]] ([[User talk:Tibetologist|talk]]) 09:38, 16 July 2012 (UTC) 

: The following table is an empiricist or positivist note of the relevant '''Translations''': 
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:::: Are you suggesting borrowing between Korean and Old English? I don't think anyone has ever even suggested that there was any contact between the two a millennium and a half ago. There are just too many intermediate peoples and languages in between for this to make sense. Besides, [[Wanderwort]]er are almost always for items that don't have names in local languages because they come from somewhere else. [[User:Chuck Entz|Chuck Entz]] ([[User talk:Chuck Entz|talk]]) 17:50, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
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:::::	Again and again I wish you do not behave as if you were omniscient but do suspect you may be a victim of mass obscurantism. 

:::::	As if you were omniscient, you make such a hurry from the beginning as to try to conclude and suggest that all that I empirically note as above is just nonsense as worse than nothing. Such are propagandas, brainwashes, personal attacks, and so on. 

:::::	Instead, you'd better offer your constructive view perhaps based on PIE, regardless of mine, so that readers could compare and make a choice for themselves. This is so called the "readerly" or "user-centered" way in vogue since the late 70s, hailing [[w:the death of the author|the death of the author]] and [[w:reader-response criticism|reader-response criticism]].   

:::::	The valid explanation after all has to do either with or without such an empirical note, no doubt, which thus should remain the sole source of inference until one after another competent alternative comes in.  

:::::	There would be no folk having no word for fire. Why then did Germanic folks borrow the Greek word into Danish {{term|fyr}}, Deutsch {{term|Feuer}}, Dutch {{term|vuur}}, English {{term|fire}}, Frisian {{term|fjoer}}, etc., almost certainly in addition to their own? I wonder how you could explain this mysterious loan in Proto-Germanic and PIE terms. 

:::::	It is quite valid in science, esp. from the rationalist perspective, to assume the significant Euro-Korean contact without any historical evidence, as far as it can explain the relevant phenomena, and until it is fully falsified. 

:::::	Nonetheless, in Europe "a millennium and a half ago" Huns centered around Scythia. So Romans called them Scythians. Anglo-Saxons back then must be closely related to them, as usually were other Germanic ''folks wandering'' around Europe and North Africa ''with them'', often storming even the Roman Empires, like Germanic langobards. History has it that AS in Britain needed reinforcement from Scythia so far away. A 2005 documentary of [[w:ZDF|ZDF]] has it that Huns came "from the end of the world," suggesting the Korean peninsula and Manchuria. Most strikingly, the Hunnish traits may be found most in Korea! 

:::::	I do like you to also "see lots of [Euro-Korean] connections others might miss."
:::::	--[[User:KYPark|KYPark]] ([[User talk:KYPark|talk]]) 06:40, 21 July 2012 (UTC)