From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 59005
Date: 2008-06-03
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"That should have been two separate comments: I accept the
> <BMScott@...> wrote:
>> At 11:38:59 AM on Tuesday, June 3, 2008, stlatos wrote:
>>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
>>> <BMScott@> wrote:
>>>> *TK > KK is regular in
>>>> Latin. Weiss gives as examples
>>>> *ad-gradior 'approach' > aggredior
>>>> *ad-causa:- 'charge' > accu:sa:re
>>>> *ped-ka:- 'sin' > pecca:re,
>>> I'd say that an original noun/adj. formed that verb. If
>>> so, *pediko- was the original form, like *sitikos
>>> 'thirsty' > siccus 'dry', with (perhaps not regular)
>>> middle V>0 between two consonants. If it was regular, the
>>> type of C would have counted.
>> I accept the usual derivation of <siccus> from *seikW-,
>> certainly in preference to one from 'footic'.
> *sitikos 'thirsty' would come from sitis 'thirst' not from
> 'foot' or anything similar.