Re: [tied] Artemis and the Bear (long)

Piotr wrote:

>And don't forget Hittite hartaggas/hartkas. The protoform is actually
>*xrtkos with a nil-grade initial syllable, visible in the Latin and
>Sanskrit forms. Another likely cognate is Lithuanian irs^tva 'bear's lair'.

Interesting. What's the origin of the /-va/: a suffix?

I ask because a /w/ also appears in the Kartvelian borrowing (Alexis
Manaster-Ramer, p.c.) *das^tw- "bear", which could well be from IE
*r.k^t-os (just like we have *ok^th3- "8" --> PK *os^txw- "4").

On the other periphery of IE, Basque borrowed <hartz> "bear" from
Celtic *artos.

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