etymacct123

there is no dna that encodes for language

how europeans got their language is not our problem

neither the yamnaya r1b z2103 nor sintashta r1a z2125 amounted to much in world history and the sintashtans were just scythians or what we called shakas

these geneticists are just looking for keys under the streetlight ignoring actual evidence

rest of the dna debate is massively hyped propaganda and search for relevance and funding

of course but PIE is an imagined language with an imaginary date of 2500 BC

lack of any attestation kills all PIE claims

whereas sanskrit is a solidly real language with a lot of evidence that it dates back to 4th millennium BC or even much further back for the rg veda

evidence that is vociferously ignored or censored in the west for various reasons

so the tactic of making sanskrit a daughter language of PIE is not accepted

ok but postulating chinese called it rice first and then switched to mi but rest of world kept it as rice is a stretch

rice entered europe as oryza not all that long ago and the link to tamil arici is straightforward and heavy trade existed between rome and india such that we keep finding hoards of roman era coins in india

romans were even complaining of a trade deficit with indians and emptying of their treasury

it is not just similar sounds

ctrl f supa in the link above i believe the dish described is basically the same

and the arthashastra in any case outclasses all other attestations even if you take western dating

the pushback on this etymology is seemingly more than even for the word cash which is also an indian word but the english would even prefer to credit the french for it than indians

french caisse is a tangential link at best while tamil cash is actually cash and got printed on coins as such and derives from sanskrit karsha a measure of weight also attested in arthashastra and so of similar age

actually genetic evidence is for multiple centres of domestication with later mixing

providing a link for this is what got me accused last time so just search for how old is indian agriculture on your fave search engine

in any case the chinese word is mi and has no linguistic relation to the word rice

even the japanese call rice with a mix of the chinese and indian words