From: Christopher Gwinn
Message: 3631
Date: 2000-09-13
>I still don't understand. What's the reflex of *worsa-? And why is
>*-nos (passive?) attached to it? How does this make grammatical sense in IE?Pokorny, IEW, pg 81AU-9. AU[E]-, AUED-, AUER- "flowing"c) AUER- "water/rain/river"4. UER-S "rain" (Greek ouron)The "-N-OS" in *UER-S-AN-OS is perhaps the divine suffix.
-C. Gwinn