Re: Ir. cas(s) and IE models (was: Ligurian)

At 7:58:27 PM on Sunday, May 13, 2012, The Egyptian
Chronicles wrote:

> OCTAVIA ALEXANDER wrote: It looks like Germanic *xizd-o:n
> is actually related to *xaizd-o:n 'tow' and Latin
> caesarie:s '(head) hair', Sanskrit késara- 'hair, mane'.


> ISHINAN: I am responding here only to the latter part of
> the above paragraph, i.e. the linkage of the Latin
> caesarie:s to the Sanskrit késara-

> IMHO, this is a weird and overreaching linkage between the
> Latin meaning of caesarie: of long flowing luxuriant hair
> and the Sanskrit késara- meaning of hair of the brow, mane
> of a horse or lion, a fan for driving away flies and/or a
> fiber of a mango fruit.

Weird and overreaching? It's about as straightforward as
they come.

Brian