Re: what is the PIE root for Latin fascia

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>
> At 7:49:46 AM on Saturday, April 4, 2009, alexandru_mg3
> wrote:
>
> > Is not quite clear for me what is the PIE root of Latin
> > fascia
>
> > Is bHedHh2- 'to press, to bend' (Pok.113-4) >
> > *bHodHh2-sk-eh2 ?
>
> Try Pokorny, p.111: *bHasko- 'bundle, heap'. So also in
> Watkins.
>
> Brian

It cannot be bHasko- if the Latin words fascia, fascis are cognates
with
Alb. bashkë~Rum. baskǎ) 'bundle of fleece'
Alb. bashkë [adv.] 'together'

that is very probable

due to the fact the Albanian intervocalic -sk- > -h-

So it contains a cluster -Csk-

Marius