Re: [cybalist] Hamp and his dog, an IE shepherd

Piotr:

> As for your final question, if you re-read my posting, you will see
> >that I did NOT reconstruct a -u- stem (the Slavic nom. sg. *pIsU is
> >ambiguous, of course). Actually, all the evidence I know of favours a
> >Slavic -o- stem, which is precisely why I don't INSIST on the
> >identification of *pIsU with *peku but merely offer it as a remote
> >possibility.

Just as I suspected. So in the end, far too little evidence exists for a
relationship between *peku and *kwo:n to even be entertained. Do I
understand right? What would *pikos mean, anyway? "Spot" perhaps? :)

- gLeN
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