From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 17244
Date: 2002-12-22
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Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 4:01 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] PIE root for "to fart"?
> Piotr, I know that in "Guns Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond,
> suggests that *pferd was the PIE form.
I know the book but haven't got it to hand at the moment. Why such a curious form? "Pferd" is the German word for 'horse', but there was no such thing as *pf in PIE!
Piotr