Re: [tied] Re: Andere

17-03-2004 11:04, loreto bagio wrote:

> Quite strange. How can it be explained in the light of Gk andr-, man
> or as it is used in the compound word androgyny 'male'?

As Basque and(e)re means 'lady, madam', and apparently meant the same
thing already in Aquitanian, it's history has nothing to do with the
history of Greek ane:r (oblique stem andr- < *anr-), which comes from
PIE *h2ne:r 'man, male human being'.

Piotr