http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=house - house http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=house">

O.E. hus "dwelling, shelter, house," from P.Gmc. *khusan (cf. O.N., O.Fris. hus, Du. huis, Ger. Haus), of unknown origin, perhaps connected to the root of http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hide - hide (v.). In Goth. only in gudhus "temple," lit. "god-house;" the usual word for "house" in Goth. being razn.

Another interesting word is Dezfuli Zherman which means "white race/people", the word "German" can be related to it.

Really?? Could you give us some more information about that book and possibly give a short sample list of those COWs?? I'm interested in the subject of pseudo-linguistics so I would be really pleased. Thanks in advance.

I can't see where it states it's among top linguistic books of 2008, in fact, it was published in 2007. It says, however, ''Nouvelles acquisitions iraniennes de la bibliothèque depuis avril 2008'', which according to my weak knowledge of French means ''new Iranian acquisitions of the library for April 2008'' (which makes perfect sense since it's a webpage of a library). But perhaps your knowledge of French is much better and the whole thing is some strange French idiom meaning ''the top Iranian books of 2008'', I really don't know.

Some Dezfuli words which begin with the letter "K":

Kak (Cake) {Of course "Kak" is one of the most famous sweetmeats of Iran from the ancient times, just search for "famous sweetmeat Iran": http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=famous-sweetmeat+Iran - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=famous-sweetmeat+Iran }
Kot (Cut) { Persian Kutah means "short"}
Korpah (Crop)
Karossan (Cross)
Koromb (Crump)
Korna (Crown) { There is also an ancient region in Dezful named Kornasion: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Kornasion - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Kornasion }
Korong (Crank)
Korup (Group) { the Persian word is Goruh }
Kok (Quick)
Kalan (Clan) { Persian Kalantar means "elder, headman"}
Kalap (Clip)
Kolenjah (Cling)
Kolu (Clew)
Kali (Clay)
Kon (Can) { Kon in persian means "do" }
Kenj (Quench)
Kuf (Quaff) { Kuft in Persian means "eat/drink" }
Kul (Cool)
Kuku (Cook) { Kuku is also a very popular dish in Iran: http://www.irantour.org/Iran/food/Kuku.html - http://www.irantour.org/Iran/food/Kuku.html )
Kis (Kiss)
...

Is there any serious attempt to explain the phonological shifts and are the proto-language roots provided for each?? Or is it just other long list of pseudo-cognates without any explanation??

Just at first glance I can see it corresponds to Voltaire's statement - the vowels are ignored completely. It seems to be another of those magna opera to which a great deal of work went, but little linguistic knowledge. Moreover, I can see several loanwords there and a distant backborrowing, so I'm again confused if it wants to prove something like ''English are just Dezfuli slaves'' or it is just ''hey, that's funny, but we have no point otherwise''. I also suspect the word 'kul' to be a loanword from English, since it's widespread nowadays and many languages have borrowed it.

Could you provide me with some further information, particularly whether it be just a long pseudo-cognate list or it provide some further evidence. Thanks in advance.

One interesting word is "Nal", this word means "shoe, sandal, sock" in Arabic and especially "horseshoe" in Modern Persian, but its original meaning in Gotvandi is "Needle", the reason could be that from this word, there was the Middle Persian "Nalbandi" which means "Sandal making", this Middle Persian word can be found in Old Arabic -> http://books.google.com/books?id=3JXQh09i2JwC&pg=PA1132&lpg=PA1132&ots=iJZsvNj-zz&sig=cjqsH9fFWbZqnReT0ba5ncpknBE&hl=en&ei=jHT4ScGENcHI-AbxxpTHDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2 - Arabic-English Dictionary and some other languages, like Armenian, you probably know the famous tennis player David Nalbandian -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalbandian - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalbandian

Sanskrit bandhah "a tying, bandage," Avestan band- "to bind," Old Persian band "to bind," Gothic bandi "that which binds; Middle Irish bainna "bracelet."

More Info about Nålbinding : http://www.geocities.com/sigridkitty/history.html - http://www.geocities.com/sigridkitty/history.html

"Nålbinding is currently done in many places around the world although it is definitely beginning to die out in our 21st century. According to my sources it is still practiced in at least the following places: the mountainous regions of Central Asia;24 Persia, i.e. Lurestan and Iran;25 Sweden;26 Norway;27 Denmark (possibly); ..."

North of Khuzestan is Luristan, in fact geographically, mountainous region of Dezful is considered to be in Luristan, not in Khuzestan Plain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khuzestan_Plain - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khuzestan_Plain for this reason we see the famous Shevi waterfall of Dezful is among the tourist attractions of Luristan: http://wikitravel.org/en/Lorestan - http://wikitravel.org/en/Lorestan

I just searched for the word "Luristan" in a famous book:

A History of art By Lawrence Gowing: http://books.google.com/books?lr=&id=I5BUAAAAMAAJ&q=luristan&pgis=1 - http://books.google.com/books?lr=&id=I5BUAAAAMAAJ&q=luristan&pgis=1

Firstly, you should read the whole paragraph, including the last clause (no direct connection possible).

Secondly, he was an artist and writer. Claiming relation according to some similarities in art is too dangerous. For instance, let us look at music. Much of Chinese traditional music is build on a pentatonic scale which is practically the same as much of modern popular music is build on. That does not mean, however, that there is some relation between Chinese and those who use that type of pentatonic scale as a basis for their music, or just between the music traditions. No. Many such similarities can be drawn.

Would someone please translate this Swedish article into English: http://fornvannen.se/pdf/1930talet/1934_239.pdf - http://fornvannen.se/pdf/1930talet/1934_239.pdf

Another interesting article: http://130.91.80.97:591/PDFs/49-1/Olofsson.pdf - http://130.91.80.97:591/PDFs/49-1/Olofsson.pdf

Horse Sacrifice at Eketorp Fort, Sweden
by jan olofsson and egil josefson

You can find the answer of the question here:

The Scandinavians By Judith Jesch

I found something in English in that Swedish articles: http://fornvannen.se/pdf/1950talet/1954_257.pdf - http://fornvannen.se/pdf/1950talet/1954_257.pdf

SUMMARY

Birger Nerman: The Late Bronze Age
A First Swedish
During the late Bronze Age a fairly rapid development takes place, both quantitatively and qualitativcly, in the Mälar-Hjälmar district and in Gotland; the finds are still most numerous, however, in the soutlicrnmost parts of the Scandinavian cultural area. Each of the first-mentioned localitics creates its own special types, but at the same time there is evidence of a combined Central Swcden-Gotland cultural area.
The warm, dry climate and comparatively pcaceful conditions prevailing in the Bronze Age must have resulted in a large inerease in population, which in its turn must have sought an outlet in expansion. There are indeed signs of such activity having originated from South Seandinavia and from Central Sweden-Gotland.
If we confine ourselves to this latter expansion and first examine that originating in the Mälar valley, we find that the westerly Bronze Age culture in Finland, which is an offshoot of that in the Mälar valley, has extended further, individual finds of Scandinavian character from the late Bronze Age baving been found outside this area.
The expansion from the Mälar valley also affected areas in tlie neighbourhood and on this side of tlie great bend of the Volga. Here so-called Mälar valley axes have been found (e. g. Fig. 2) as well as an east Russian local form of this type (Fig. 4) and from here comes a tutulus (Fig. 5) derived from a Central Swedish prototype. These finds have been interpreted as proof of a Swedish settlement in these parts.
The Baltic countries exhibit both Central Swedish and Gotland elements during the late Bronze Age. During the early Bronze Age the Scandinavian elements are weak and restricted to Esthonia, but during the late Bronze Age they becomc much stronger. Among other things at least two Mälar valley axes (one shown in Fig. 3) have been discovered. But groups of graves of Scandinavian type are known from the late Bronze Age of the Baltic countries, although not from their early Bronze Age: from Esthonia low cairns or barrows of earth and stones (Fig. 6) with man's length cists (Fig. 7), usually containing skeletons but also with cremated remains, in which Scandinavian objects have been found (e. g. the pincette in Fig. 8 and the ring collar in Fig. 9, the latter a type from Central Sweden). For the period in question such skeleton graves are otherwise only known from Gotland. This colonization continued into the beginning of the Iron Age.
Further, there is a group of nine boat-shaped enclosures (e. g. Fig. 10) from the west coast of the Gulf of Riga, whose sbapes, grave sanctuaries and contents (clay vessels) reveal their origin from a Gotland colony. Certain non-Seandinavian features in the construction of some of the grave sanctuaries show that the colony bad gradually löst contact with the motherland.
But Seandinavia, primarily Gotland, also had connections further east.
This applies particularly to the Caucasus. The pin in Fig. 11 from Gotland is Imported from there (cf. Fig. 12). Caucasian influence can be detected in several objects: from per. 4 of the Bronze Age a tutulus with bird figure from Blekinge (see Fig. 13, cf. Fig. 14), from per. 5 a loop from Småland for instance (see Fig. 15, cf. Fig. 16), from per. 6 a pin from Halland for instance (see Fig. 19, cf. Fig. 20), from per. 1 of the Iron Age a pin from Gotland (see Fig. 17, cf. Fig. 18).
Influenccs are also observable from Luristan in west Persia, e. g. the bronze bowl in Fig. 21 from Västmanland from per. 5 (cf. Fig. 22).

A linguistic book: http://books.google.com/books?id=V4KKN_oByKMC - http://books.google.com/books?id=V4KKN_oByKMC

The Nordic languages: an international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages
By Oskar Bandle, Kurt Braunmüller, Lennart Elmevik, Gun Widmark
Published by Walter de Gruyter, 2002

There are some very interesting points in this book, lets read a page (page 687):

Anthropology

Other than archaeologists, we see anthropologists also say that there is a connection betweem people of Lorestan, the Caucasus (North Armenia) and Scandinavia and consider them as belonging to a common Nordic-Iranian race, you can read here: http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:gwIKy1CD-DUJ:www.hossank.com/forum/archive/index.php%3Ft-14.html+nordic-Iranian+iran&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk - Nordic race in north Armenia -> "People of Lori province of north Armenia are mainly Nordic with slight local Armenoid admixture.", this is really interesting that this part of the Caucasus has been also called "Lori" from the ancient times, so for "Lori" there are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori

Lori may refer to:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori_Province - Lori Province , Armenia
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luri_language - Luri language , spoken by the Lur people Lorestān, Iran
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Lori-Joraget - Kingdom of Lori-Joraget , an Armenian kingdom from c. 980 to 1240

About Nordic-Iranian, Phallanx has posted a good article which mentions it in this thread: http://www.allempires.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=3900 - http://www.allempires.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=3900  (Who are the modern day "Greeks"?)

*Edit: I added a question mark after the word source at the end of my first sentence.

It's actually vice versa. Those who don't fully understand pseudoscientific arguments have a strong tendency to believe them, those who do fully understand them, have no other option than to dismiss them.

At first Saxons were not Germanic, then all Germans were Iranian speaking, now they're just a people from Iran?? What comes next??

The possible relation between Gutians (Goths) and Hittites, an ancient people who lived in the eastern Turkey and spoke a certain Indo-European language (of Centum branch), is also interesting, http://books.google.com/books?id=wqaH5kj2gCAC&pg=PA358&lr=&as_brr=3&as_pt=ALLTYPES&source=gbs_search_s&cad=0 - This book mostly talks about these things (Guti, Kudti, Kurdi, ...) this is a page of it:

Sorted! You're just collecting and cherry-picking inventions of others.

Khatti was not the way Hittites referred to themselves, that's a misconception based on the place name and only later it was proved wrong. Khatti refers to Hattians, a Caucasian people occupying Asia Minor prior to IE invasion. Hittites called themselves Neshili.

I think we'd better look at what the Highest Frequency section really says:

Time of origin 25,000-30,000 years BP
Place of origin Europe or Asia Minor

Bosnian Croats 73%,

Herzegovinians 70.9%,

Croats ~48.0%,

Sardinians 42.3%,

Bosniaks 42.0%,

Norwegians 40.3%,

Iran 10%-34%

Now how does this support you? What's wrong, I don't understand. Is it that difficult for you to correctly interprete a wiki article??