Re: [tied] schauen

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

>How do we know that the sk- in Baltic is itself
> original...

Probably comparing the word in question with words found in other IE
languages. What's wrong about comparing Lith. <skujà>, Latv. (pl.)
<skujas> 'fir/pine-needle' with OIr. <sce:>, Welsh
<ysbyddad> 'hawthorn' and the other Celtic stuff in Pokorny under *sk
(h)woj- (*skwé:is, G. *skujós as per EIEC)?

>...(rather than, say, of metathetic origin < *ks-, as apparently in
> the root of *sku- < *ks(e)u- 'shave, scrape')?

Pokorny, for one, derives <skùsti> 'shave' from *ske:u(-t)-. He could
well be wrong, but is "apparently" the right word in that respect?

Sergei