Re: [tied] Meteoric iron, self-smelted

On Thu, 08 May 2003 13:39:30 +0000, "Daniel J. Milton"
<dmilt1896@...> wrote:

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> Are there cognates in other IE languages, or is Gk. 'autos' an
>orphan?
> Watkins leaves it at the Greek. The online Pokorny under root
>131 AU- "that", "other" has Gk. 'au' "andreseits", "wiederum", and
>then adds "Brugmann BSGW. 60, 23 a 2 reiht auch gr.[autos] - als
>`von ihm aus' an; andere Deutungen s. bei Schwyzer Gr. Gr. I 613."
>I don't quite understand the German "von ihm aus",

"out of him, from him outwards". I would guess (given the
segmentation au-tos) *au (2)- " herab, weg von" + the pronoun <tos>
(in the wrong case...).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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