>my Gk. dictionary gives the word
>as _phtheir_ (gen. phtheiros). How would it be then with the
derivation?
Greek phtheir is to be taken from the same root as phtheirw, < *gwhdher, to
waste away Pokorny p 487. On page 737 Pokorny offers the Albanian morr
"louse" derived from *morko- "the scratchey thing") as a possible parallel
development.
Peter