Re: [tied] Fwd: Re: [Nostratic-L] Re: Nostratic numerals

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:17:07 +0200, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

>15-08-03 13:52, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>
>> There's only an s-extension made from *deu- which gives Skt. do:s.a:
>> "evening", Grk. dúsis "setting of sun/stars" (*deu- "untertauchen").
>
>The Greek word can't be an s-extension! It's a *-ti- derivative of the
>verb <duo:> (~ <duno:>) 'sink, go down, set'.
>

Of course. I was going to quote "Greek deíelos "evening" (Pokorny:
richtiger deielós, metr. Dehnung für *deelós, aus *deuselós?)", and then,
momentarily suppressing all knowledge about Greek /s/, I thought dúsis, a
couple of lines down, would be simpler to explain...

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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