Re: [tied] Hooks

21-01-04 00:17, Richard Wordingham wrote:

> Onions connects *xo:k- with Old English _haca_ 'bolt', Old High
> German _ha:ko_ 'hook' and Russian _kogot'_ 'claw, iron hook'. It
> looks highly parallel to the rejected *xo:ki:n -_koza_ connection.

That would imply pre-Slavic *kAgH- in Slavic *kogUtI and *kAg^H- in
*koza as opposed to pre-Germanic *kAg-/*kA:g- (*A = *a or *o). Not
impossible in a technical term, perhaps a wanderwort borrowed to and
fro. After all, we have also Pol. hak 'hook' (from Middle High German).

Piotr