Re: bhosos

On 2009-04-03 21:46, alexandru_mg3 wrote:

> But Piotr, the word is under bHes-2 at Pokorny (see Pok. 146)

I know. But it's one of the shakiest roots in the whole book.

> And I cannot think see that Pokorny can made such a trivial
> mistake....to link a word to a root without to have one consonant of the
> PIE root

There's plenty of _extremely_ doubtful stuff in Pokorny.

> What is you point here, regardin Pokorny?

Two points: (a) *bHes- 'blow' is questionable as a PIE reconstruction;
(b) a connection between <bábhasti> (?? I don't know this word with the
meaning 'blows', pace Mallory & Adams who probably have it from Pokorny)
and <bHam.sas-> is even more questionable, for both formal and semantic
reasons.

> But anyway Skt. bhasád 'hidden, secret part of the body, genital part'
> clearly comes from bHos-ó-

Just because it's similar? Anyway, it isn't likely to come from
*bHos-od- (whatever the origin of the strange suffix), as such a form
would have been affected by the open-syllable lengthening of *o
(Brugmann's Law).

Piotr