Re: Scantily Attested PIE Roots in Wiktionary (was: Lislakh)

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 66938
Date: 2010-12-05

At 12:47:31 PM on Sunday, December 5, 2010, Richard
Wordingham wrote:

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

>> 9/Many supoosed proto ie roots are supported by examples
>> of very few Indo-European branches and sometimes by only
>> 1 ie branche,or from only 1-2 branch with very
>> unbelievable sound changes forgetting the
>> innovation,loans and chance propabilities.

>> As an exemple,the supposed pie *h2ég^H-r root has only 2
>> given examples both in the same Indo-Iranian
>> branch(Avestan and Sanskrit) *h2ég^H-r/n.;- day Skr.
>> ahar, Av. azan

> [I've taken the liberty of transliterating Unicode to
> Latin-1.]

> There are two entries that cite reflexes from only one
> branch:

> *gHreh1 Eng green, grow, grass

> This one needs some investigation. There may be
> connections with some similar roots, though it is
> discouraging that neither Pokorny nor the 'Concise
> Dictionary of English Etymology' (Onions) offer a PIE root
> for these words.

It's in Pokorny: (gHre:-), gHro:-, gHr@- 'wachsen, grünen'
(p. 454). It's also in Watkins.

Brian