Re: [tied] Fwd: PIE for wash

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 11:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Fwd: PIE for wash
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> > > > > Latin
> > > > > muscus
> > > >>Proto-Germanic *waskan
> > > > > 'wash',
> > > > I take it then that these are indeed the
> > > > only forms for *m-sk and *w-sk.
>
> > I recall it as being *mozg-. I'll go check.
>
> PIE *mus-o- 'moss, bog' is decently attested (Slavic *mUxU, Germanic
> *musa-), and *mus-ko- is just a suffixed variant of that.

Pokorny cites some Slavonic forms in -zg-. The complete papagraph,
under Root 1309 _meu_ 'wet; dirt; to wash' reads:

5. Mit formantischem Guttural: lat. muscus m. `Moos'; norw. dial.
musk `Staub, feiner Regen, Dunkelheit', da"n. dial. musk `Schimmel',
mndl. mosch, mosse ds.; aksl.; muzga (*mouz-ga:) `Lake, Weiher',
russ. mzgnutü `verderben', mozgnutü `abmagern', abg. múz^diti
`schwa"chen', russ. mozgú `regnerisches Wetter', moz^s^itü
`einweichen'.

If we accept Pokorny's analysis, the alleged Nostratic root deduced
from PIE 'm-sk, w-sk' is composed of nothing but PIE suffixes!

Richard.