Re: Fw: [tied] Pferd

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "indravayu" <sonno3@...> wrote:

>
> Personally, I favor an etymology where Paris(i)i is derived from PIE
> *kwer- "do, make" (which gives us Welsh paraf, peri "to cause, create,
> make")

Is there any particular reason not to consider paraf a borrowing from
Latin para:re 'to prepare, provide, procure' (as did Loth)? The
semantic distance is not that great and we already have W parawd, Bret.
paret from Lat. para:tus.

Anders