boskO

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

>
> No, and it could't be because Gk b cannot correspond to PIE *p. The
> Greek word is sometimes associated with Lithuanian guotas 'herd' <
> *gWoH-to- or *gWaH-to-; the verb could be *gW@... It could have
> something to do with the cattle word *gWo:us if one reconstructed it as
> a u-stem *gWoH-u- (as some people do!).

P changes to b, in Gr. (cf. bateO instead of pateO). A PIE *p?sc- could
rather well be transformed to Gr. boskO. -

Christos