From: stlatos
Message: 69888
Date: 2012-06-30
>Only one set of words (from one borrowing, probably) in one language so corresponds; none of the others do.
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <sean@> wrote:
> >
> > > Although I disagree with slatos' etymology, I must agree with him in
> > > this word having initial *wr-, as in Latin ru:scus.
> >
> > If ruscum is a native L word, and I have no reason to think
> otherwise, it's related to 'rust' and 'red' from the color of its
> berries. Its slight similarity to * wrizgo:n \ * brizgo:n \ etc. is
> just coincidental (as cognate words cover all types of plant( part)s,
> some of which happen to be named after other features instead).
> >
> I disagree. Not only they refer to the same plant but also they've got a
> -sk- ~ -zg- cluster. Too many "coincidencees".
>