Re: [tied] Tool

On 2007-08-16 15:19, Daniel J. Milton wrote:

> Watkins says only "from Old English 'to:l', possibly from old Norse".
> Could this be a survivor of a word behind the PIE suffix for nouns of
> instruments *-tlo-? I know it's unlikely, particularly since *-tlo-
> is only one variant of a presumably equivalent group with *-tro-,
> *-dhro- and *dhlo- (from Mallory and Adams), but can someone formally
> demonstrate that I've been mislead by a false similarity?
> Dan Milton

Well, for one thing, neither *t nor *dH would have given Germanic *t.

Some kind of connection with *tawja- 'fit together, make' has often been
suggested, though some problematic details remain to be sorted out.

Piotr