Re: [tied] Re: Lat. niger once again

On 2006-01-13 15:00, Daniel J. Milton wrote:

> Liddell and Scott has : "eremn-os , ê, on, (Ereb-nos, cf. Erebos)
> murky, black, dark".
> I assume "Ereb-nos" is "*Erebnos" just to explain "Erebos". Must we
> abandon this, or is it still possible under the Piotr hypothesis?
> Dan

It's perfectly all right. <erebos> is *h1régW-os/-es- (Skt. rájas-,
Germanic *rikWiz), an es-neuter derived from the same root. The voiced
labiovelar gives Gk. b, so Gk. eremno- < erebno- < *h1regW-no-

Piotr