Re: [tied] PIE blood

From: CeiSerith@...
Message: 15475
Date: 2002-09-14

In a message dated 9/14/2002 10:20:23 AM Eastern Standard Time, alexmoeller@... writes:


The basic 'blood' term in PIE is *h1esh2-r/*h1esh2-(e)n- (e.g.
Hitt. eshar, eshan-, Skt. ásRk, asnáH, Latv. asinis [pl.], Gk.
e:ar).


Adams and Mallory (in Encylopedia of Indo-European Culture) also suggest *kre'uHa, for "blood (outside the body), gore.

David Fickett-Wilbar