Re: Cognates & etymology of English net

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2007-11-30 19:41, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > 3) so are Lat. natrix "viper" (German "Wasserschlange"), German

Natter

> > "adder", which occur in the set of Italic-Germanic root pairs with
> > vowel /a/ (which can't be original in Latin)
>
> It can. *R.HC- seems to have been vocalised as RaC- in Latin (and in
> Celtic), and since WGmc. had long-vowelled *na:d(V)r- with *a: < *e:,
> the snake word makes sense as *neh1-tor- ~ *n.h1-ter-, *n(e)h1-trih2,
> with *(s)neh1- 'thread, spin, sew'.
>
> Piotr
>

Romanian nãpârcã 'viper, kind of lizzard' (Albanian id.) belongs here
too, but we a different 'ending'

*snh1-e- > PAlb/Dacian* *na- > *n&-

If the word was with s-, this indicates us that the reduction sn > s in
PAlb/Dacian? started before Roman Times and was still active in Roman
Period

I suspect that we have here a compound word ( PAlb. *na - *parka? ) but
I couldn't fix yet the second part with a high probability

Any help here?

Thanks,
Marius