Re: *dan-

--- In cybalist@egroups.com, "Sergejus Tarasovas" <s.tarasovas@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@egroups.com, "Torsten Pedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> wrote:
> > --- In cybalist@egroups.com, "petegray" <petegray@...> wrote:
> > > >In many cases "matches" evaporate if you know anything about

the

> > history of
> > > the words in question, ...
> > >
> > > As in the oft-quoted example of English "have" Latin "habeo"
> > >
> > > Peter
> >
> > True (?). I sometimes wondered about Slavic brod- vs. "ford".
> >
> > Torsten
>
> frod<*p-, brod-<*bh-. Hardly have something in common.

Exactly. We all know that. So why do both mean "ford"?

Torsten