Fwd: PIE for wash

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...>
wrote:

> This was meant for Cybalist!
> Richard.
> --- In austronesian@yahoogroups.com,
> "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...>
> wrote:
> Some
> Nostratic-Austronesian-Sino-Tibetan
> correspondences have been mentioned
> on Austroneisan and Cybalist.

Whoops! I means Austronesian and Nostratic-L.

> The Nostratic-Sino-Tibetan connections
> were
> proposed by Shevoroshkin. One of
> them cites PIE forms which I am not
> confident I can identify, viz:
> PAN *basuq "wash" cf PIE *m-sk-,
> *w-sk "wash".

> For *m-sk all I can think of Latin
> muscus and a smattering (Dutch and
> dialect words in Scandinavian
> languages)
> of Germanic forms.

> For *w-sk all I can
> think of is Proto-Germanic *waskan
> 'wash', which Onions derives within
> Germanic as a simplification of
> *watskan formed on *wat- 'water',
> presumably

(my presumption)

> with the inchoative -sk- suffix.

From the resounding silence, I take it then that these are indeed the
only forms for *m-sk and *w-sk.

Richard.