Re: [tied] Gold in PIE

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Sciarretta, Antonio"
<antonio.sciarretta@...> wrote:

> I wonder, which could possibly be the origin of both terms. Is the

meaning 'gold' primary, as I suspect being gold a real material, or
is it derived from abstract verbal roots?

>
> Antonio
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It's derived from older pre-metalic roots (verbal and adjectival)