Re: leudh- > Germanic > OE leode

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" <oalexandre@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> >
> > > I think nobody has paid enough attention to the great similarity
> > > between the roots *(H1)leudh- and *teutéHa-, both meaning
> > > 'people'.
> > >
> > > The alternation between *l/*t could be explained as being
> > > different reflexes of a former lateral affricate *tL. Starostin-
> > > Nikolayev's PNC *HittL'i:wV(-l/V)
> > > http://tinyurl.com/y8bocbv
> > > 'root, seed; kin' would fit nicely here.
> > >
> > Hm.
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/44457
> >
> ??????
>

Keep'em guessing, I always say ;-)

I suppose it's the semantics that makes you balk.
I thought I had already posted an idea of mine that *lew-dh- "people" thing was a derivative of *lew- "loose", ie. separate, independent (and therefore in some way semantically connected with "leaf"), but I can't find it. Here at least are some of the other deeds I'd ascribe to this root:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/53477
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/51202
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/54560


Torsten