[tied] Re: Vanir,etc.

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

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marco Moretti" <marcomoretti69@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 10:00 AM
> Subject: [tied] Re: Vanir,etc.
>
>
> > Ablautical /o/-grade isn't found (as far I know) in any IE variety
> > for the root *wen- (from which Venus, Veneti, etc...).
>
> *wenh1-, to be precise. The o-grade must have occurred at least in

the

> causative *wonh1eje/o- (attested in Indo-Iranian). Pokorny assumes

it for

> Germanic lexemes containing *wan- 'habit, custom', '(get)

accustomed', etc.,

> but the semantics is problematic.

Too problematic indeed. I suggest to dismiss any attempt to find IE
cognates for pre-IE items like this. I don't see any reason to think
Indo-Aryan stuff more valid or archaic than other IE stuff. Many
matchups with Indo-Aryan and European strange items are demonstrated
to be inconsistent. Does somebody remember the false connection
between Latin /servus/ and Avestan /haurv-/ ?

Marco