On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:29:29 +0100, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
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gpiotr@...> wrote:
>A good point; I didn't think of ade:n. Plus, Latin re:n- 'kidney' may be from metathesised *negWH-r-o- > *regWH-n-o- > *re:no- converted into a consonantal stem by nalogy to lie:n 'spleen', which also accounts for the variant rie:n (Anttila 1972). Yes, it seems there are good arguments for divorcing *ngWen- 'gland, (swelling in the) groin' from *negWHr- 'kidney'.
The difficulties of connecting <ade:n> and <ökkr> (not necessarily
<inguen>, of course) to <nioro> and <nephro:n> are well known.
Pokorny, and de Saussure, Brugmann, Hirt and Bezzenberger (quoted by
Boisacq) didn't think them unsurmountable. Be that as it may, I don't
see why the etymology of <re:ne:s> should in any way be an argument
for divorcing <inguen> from *nehgwr/*nghwen-. Anttila's conjecture is
interesting, but metathesis is always a doubtful (circular) recourse.
I have no idea what the etymology of <re:ne:s> is. Why not
*re:it-n-o-, cf. Lith. <ríetas> "Oberschenkel, Lende", OCS <ritI>
"bum")?
Well, I won't be lowering the quality of the list for a while now.
I'm off to Poland. Do zobaczenie w naste,pnym roku. Season's
greetings to all.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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