[tied] Re: An odd etymology

From: tgpedersen
Message: 32593
Date: 2004-05-13

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> 12-05-2004 13:14, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Not yet. One's got to be the first. But note that it would
provide a
> > source for Koivulehto's assumed loaned IE laryngeals (into
Finnish).
>
> Into Proto-Uralic and Proto-Finno-Ugric. That was quite a few
millennia
> ago, and not necessarily anywhere close to Finland.
>

PIE *akWis-/*akWus- "axe"
PIE *ak-/*ag^- "sharp"
PIE *ak- "stone"

PIE *ank-/*ang- "bend, curve"
PGmc *hank- "hip"
Basque anka, hanka "foot, Unterschenkel; leg, hip"
must be loan because of -nk-

PGmc. *hakk- "hack"
by some related to
PGmc. *hakan-/*ha:ko-/
*ho:ka-/*ha:go- "hook"
Dan. hank "handle"
a typical messy Nordwestblock or language of geminates root

Basque gako, gakho "key"
Basque kako, kakho "hook"

/h/-loss?, /k/-loss? laryngeal > /k/?


PIE *op-
Latin opinor "believes"
PGmc. *ho:p-/*hoff- "hope"
No match outside Germanic; my Danish etymolgy book wants to connect
it *hopp- "hop" as in "jump for joy". Hm!


PIE *ap- "bind"
PGmc. *hap-/*hab- "grasp", "have"


Latin odi "hate"
Gmc hate
but they have plenty of cognates


PIE *omb-/*ombh- "swell"
English hump


PIE *h3mi- "wet; filth"
O. Dan. humsk "filthy"
humske "evil fluid"


PIE *oms- "dark"
Latin umbra "shadow"
ON hum "twilight"


PIE *op- "be abundant"
Latin copia
PGmc *haupa-/*hu:pon "heap"
I suspect the -au- was posited to accomodate -o:- in low German. It
might have -o:- to begin with.

Torsten