re [tied] re The name of the name

May I intervene with an off-topic question? If
la(h)hanza(n) is duck in Hi, is Gad. lach/lacha
just co-incidence? I've little to hand to tell
me more, only quotidian dictionaries and what I
can dig up via Google (which is so far limited to
McBain: 'lach: a wild duck, Irish, Early Irish
lacha; cf. the Lithuanian root lak, fly', without
further explanation).

Gordon
<gordonselway@...>

At 6:22 this morning Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

>On 2007-02-17 02:13, Sean Whalen wrote:
>> --- Sean Whalen <stlatos@...> wrote:
>>
>>> --- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>>>
>>>> see Joshua Katz's paper from the 17th
>>>> Annual UCLA IE
>>>> Conference. Katz has some beautiful examples
>>>> including *nah2-ont-
>>>> 'swimming' > la(h)hanza(n)- 'duck'.
>>> It looks to me more like a case of *xán-x-tí:x >
>>
>> Or did you mean he claims all IE words for 'duck'
>> are derived from 'swim'?
>
>If I remember correctly, he derives the Hittite word from 'swim' and
>assumes contamination between *hanh2t- and *(s)nah2- in Greek.
>
>Piotr