E-DIR Quibble

I've been looking at the Etymological Dictionary of Indoeuropean Roots at the TIED site. I found, among the Germanic examples of the root *an-, *anH- (spirit, breath) a Swedish word "and" which is said to mean "breathing". Well, it doesn't. It means "duck." A couple of good Swedish examples of this root are "ande" (spirit) and "andas" (to breathe).

The only Germanic example of *ambhi (around) is OHG "umbi" (around) which makes it look as if this root is dead in the modern Germanic languages. Of course it isn't: it lives in German "um" and in the Scandinavian languages "om".

But these are just minor quibbles - an IE roots list definitely belongs on the net, and I'm grateful that the people at TIED have started working on it.

Regards,
Hakan