Re: bake

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

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> Abdullah and Piotr:
> >>It seems that PIE root *bhag- have had very deep religious

meaning

> >>Albanian word Buzmi '(Tree-) trunk, Christmas log. Nata e buzmit
> >>Christmas Eve', an suffixed form of zero-grade of PIE *bhag-,
> >>testifies about it.
> >
> >Best of all, the Slavic word for 'god, God' is *bogU (probably an
> >Iranism); that, I suppose, is as religious as anything can get.
>
> Hmmm. Now this is starting to get me to wonder whether there was
> some IE connection between *bHag- and *bHaxgo- "beech". I wonder
> because of the ancient World Tree theme that seems to connect with
> creation and prehistoric cosmology. Or maybe that's just a
> half-baked idea... hehehe.
>
>
> - gLeN

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Albanian word for beech is "bung, ~u". Probably a nasalized form of
PIE *bh(a)g-. Other derivates of this root should be: bag-
ëm 'ointment; chrisom, chrism', the root world of later denominal
pagëzoj 'baptize'.

Konushevci

Konushevci

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