Re: OE *picga

--- In cybalist@..., "Sergejus Tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

> > From: tgpedersen [mailto:tgpedersen@...]
> > I found an old print-out of Rick McAllister's list of non-IE

roots in

> > Germanic, eg.
> > German Pugge, Pogge "frog, toad"
> > Basque puga "toad"
> > Aha! What?
>
> What if it is an IEism in Basque? Cf. Slavic *pyg- ~ *pyz^- (<

*pu:g- <

> *puHg-, ) 'something blown up, ball' with possible Baltic (Latv.

pa`uga

> 'pillow', *pauHg- with Winter's feature merging with the laryngeal,
> later deleted without compensatory lengthening and prosodic traces

as in

> Lith. krau~jas or Proto-Slavic *golvoN, hence circumflex?), Indo-

Aryan

> (Skt. pu:gas 'mass') and Greek (pu:ge: 'buttocks').
>
> Sergei

Falk & Torp:
pude, Sw. puta "pillow", etymologically identical with Norw. dial.
pûta "fat woman"; cf Sw. dial. puta "be inflated", put "swelling",
Old Fris. püt "bag, pouch, tumor", Engl. pout. Outside Germanic
Sanskrit budbuda- "water bladder", Gk. dial. buzon = puknón. The
onomatopoeic fundamental root *bu "blow up, inflate" is a sideform
[what would we do without PIE sideforms?] to *bHu in MHG
bûzen "swell, protrude" and to *pu, pHu.

and:

pukkel "hump"
etc, etc

And so, somehow we again have an odd root with a velar and with a
dental extension.

Torsten