From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 15641
Date: 2002-09-20
--- In cybalist@..., "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
Yard 1 - gHwosdHos:
> Sw. gadd "sting" (of bee, etc, the stiletto part).
Yard 2 - gwosdos:
> How about considering Sw. kvast, Da. kost "broom" (Da. wa > wo > o),
> town in Jutland Ikast (I- "yew")? That would point to gw-, not gW-?
I think you mean 'gw-, not gHw-'. If not, please tell me more about
their different reflexes.
These do support the *gwosdos root, which no one was denying in this
very general sense. They are even in Pokorny -
http://flaez.ch/cgi-bin/pok.pl and look for the e-grade, 'gves'. It
was the connection with gvozdI 'nail' that was being debated.
Richard.