Re: [tied] fresh

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 19358
Date: 2003-02-27

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Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] fresh


> In this case how is to explain the Greek form "prosfat" if the root
should be a germanic *preska-?

Who said "preska-"? I said the Proto-Germanic form was *fri-ska-.

> Wherefrom the greek "sf" here?

The answer is plain: these word are unrelated. To etymologise a Greek word, you must start with Greek, not Germanic. <prospHatos> = <pros-> 'towards, near' + <pHatos> 'killed', the latter reflecting PIE *gWHn.tos 'slain, struck', from *gWHen-, one of the best-known IE verb roots. From the same root we have Gk. tHeino^. Straight from the slaughterhouse, to put it bluntly.

Piotr