Re: [cybalist] River names

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From: Sergejus Tarasovas

To: cybalist@egroups.com

Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 5:30 PM

Subject: RE: [cybalist] River names

 

Sergei wrote:

 

- what about PIE *k'uen-:k'un- 'dog'?

 

It's really *k'uon- (n. sg. *k'(u)wo:n). I suppose you've heard of Eric Hamp's analysis of 'dog' as *pk'u-o:n 'livestock herder'.

 

- is PIE *k'uen-to- rhyming with *suen-to- 'healthy' just casually?

 

Not necessarily, but it may be a different ROOT (*h1su- 'good, (be) well') with the same rhyming chain of suffixes.

 

But also a hypothesis that *k'uen-to may be derived from root *k'eu-(H-):*k'u-aH- 'force, hero, souvereign'<'fill up, swell' can be considered.

 

Some derive it all from *keu- 'be exuberant', hence 'hero', 'sacred', 'brilliant' and the like. Personally, I prefer to work with stems and words than with abstract (and semantically vague) roots and extensions, but the connections above are certainly not impossible.

 

Piotr