year (Re: sacer, sink)

> Dutch zakken "fall, descend",
> with the "side form"
> Engl. sag
>
> which confirms my suspicicion that ablauting, PPIE *a > PIE

*e/o/zero

> hadn't taken place in IE Nordwestblock (or was reversed, as in
> Sanskrit?)

Kuhn has a list of Germanic-Latin cognates in which Germanic *a
corresponds to Latin *a, which they should by regular development.
Among them is
Gothic aTnam (PDat), Latin annus "year"

So they might be Nordwestblock, borrowed by Italic in its old home.

Cf. Proto-Finno-Ugric *oDe "year"


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