Re: [tied] Fwd: PIE for wash

31-07-03 19:29, Richard Wordingham wrote:

>> 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.

Just one comment. Apart from typical inchoative or iterative varbs, PIE
*-sk^e/o- formed durative verb stems derived from nous, cf. Gk.
metHusko: < *medHu-sk^e- 'drink freely, get drunk'. *wod-sk^e- seems to
belong to this type.

Piotr