Re[2]: [tied] Re: Latin - English derivatives

At 7:31:47 AM on Sunday, July 6, 2003, Richard Wordingham
wrote:

> Doing a bit of internal reconstruction, however, I spotted
> that the pauo: < *pauso:, checked the Pokorny index at
> http://flaez.ch/pokorny.html and found *paus 'los-,
> ablassen' = 'free, leave off'. I don't know how secure the
> connection is; Pokorny's off-lne at Leiden, and Bird gives
> the meanings as 'free, loose'.

Watkins makes the connection and glosses the root 'to leave,
desert, cease, stop'; the relevant English words all come
through Latin <pausa>, so only that and Gk <pauein> are
mentioned, even if there are other connections.

Brian