Re: [tied] *swesor

celteuskara@... wrote:

> "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:
>> The word *swesor does appear to be composed of *swe "self" or "of
>> one's own (family)" and *-sor, a feminine ending
>
> Hello,
> These attempts to get at some sort of PIE phratries or marriage
> pattern system are very interesting [or was it just Torsten who was
> getting at that with his 'over the water' thing? And maybe this
> water is what Glen's *aXwe or whatever has to be 'carried over'?].
>
> But the Sister term made me think of the Irish and Scots
> Gaelic 'deirfiur' [accent over the u] and 'piuthar'. What's going on
> here? Are these really so unusual from the usual
> sestra/soeur/Schwester theme, or is the difference just superficial
> to those who know the etymology?
>
> All the Best,
> Ben

On the page from University of Wales I could download some pdf files
with roots for a proto-celtic.
I am not aware in how far the reconstruction are OK and how they did to
reconstruct it.
http://www.aber.ac.uk/~awcwww/s/p5_lexicon.html

I will like to know the meaning of our scholars here about this
proto-celtic roots there ( if anyone know about them)
Regarding the term "sister" there is given the root "*swesor-" which it
seems to me to be the same root as in Pokorny "*svesor"