From: alex moeller
Message: 68136
Date: 2011-10-23
>is this *c^In-/*c^eN-" the same root which resulted in the Old Slavic
> W dniu 2011-10-23 23:43, Brian M. Scott pisze:
>
> > The closest I can come is the pair PCelt *ken-o 'descend
> > from, come into being, be born' (OIr <cinid>), which
> > Matasović derives from PIE *ken- 'begin', and PCelt
> > *kenetlo- 'race, kind' (OWelsh <cenetl>, Cornish
> > <kinethel>), from the same source. (I've not given all of
> > the reflexes; rather, I've picked the ones most like
> > 'knith'.)
>
> Incidentally, this is one of the verb roots shared by Celtic and
> _Slavic_ (rather than Proto-Bulgar). Proto-Slavic *c^In-/*c^eN- 'begin'
> belongs here.
>
> Piotr
>