Re: [tied] The sexual life of the IEs

The only problem with *jebH- is that it's restricted to three branches, of which one (Greek oipho:) shows a slightly irregular reflex. It seems to be an Eastern IE regional term. Before anybody asks, Latic futuere and English fuck/German ficken are false friends.

Do I need to assure you I'm not Victorian (or I wouldn't have alluded to the word at all)? We have discussed words such as "cunnus" on this list before. I don't know which authors you mean, but IE dictionaries don't shy away from such terminology. The Encyclopaedia of IE Culture has a rather long entry on sex in PIE, and *jebH- is of course listed by Pokorny. Hope your detective work with the Sanskrit dictionary did you a lot of good.

Piotr

----- Original Message -----
From: Glen Gordon

To: cybalist@egroups.com

Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 9:13 PM

Subject: [tied] Yabhadabbadoo!

Hooray! I finally found it in an online Sanskrit dictionary. The word comes up as /yabh-/. From Piotr's round-about explanation, I had a feeling it meant "to have sexual intercourse", and so it does! So honestly, does this mean that an IE verb *yebh- should be listed as part of our known IE vocabulary, even though authors still in this day and age shy away from these important terms? Why must we be so Victorian about this subject? Haven't we learned anything from Dr Ruth :)