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

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From: Glen Gordon

To: cybalist@egroups.com

Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 12:47 PM

Subject: [TIED] 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

Bonne idée. Pikus' is a common cynonym in Polish (let me coin a learned word for a dog's name, we may need it on this list). But in the passage quoted above I'm being sceptical about *pIs- = *peku (a home affair within Slavic), not about *peku being related to *kuo:n (an IE problem).

 

Piotr