[tied] Re: Indo-European for Uralic speakers

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>
> Torsten cites an nonexistant etymon:
> >[...] from *an- "breathe" (Latin an-helare, Dansk
> >ånde, Swedish andas).
>
> It's *h2anh- actually.
>

Thank you Glen. I was having my weekly non-laryngeal day. BTW, turns
out "handle" (on eg. cauldron) is *ans- (*h2ans-). All this material
for punning must have caused much Celtic anhilarity.

Torsten