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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, guto rhys <gutorhys@...> wrote:
>
> Welsh also retains the root: 'coeg', which today means 'vain,
empty'. It's meaning in middle Welsh was blind, one-eyed, mainly used
in personal names. Old Irish has 'caech'.
> Guto
>
I looked up up Franz Bopp's original article on IE and Malayo-
Polynesian. He had a remark on Latin caecus: He relates it to Gothic
haih-s, and claims it should be divided ha-ih-s, originally
meaning "one-eyed", and compares it to ha-lt "limping", ha-nf "one-
handed" and even ha-lf itself; the ha- part he claims to be identical
to Sanskrit -ka in e-ka "one" (and -lf equal to the ending of eleven
and twelve). Any sense in this?
Torsten