Re: [tied] Re: E-DIR Quibble

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 5931
Date: 2001-02-05

Just a clarification, without speculating about a connection: the "breathe" root is really *h2anh1-. The "duck" word is reconstructible as *h2anHt(-i)- ~ *h2nHt-i-h2-. The second laryngeal is hard to determine, possibly = *h2 (if Boeotian Greek na:ssa is anything to go by).
 
Piotr
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Håkan Lindgren
To: Cybalist
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 9:33 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: E-DIR Quibble

You think "spirit" and "duck" are related? What about this root, also listed at the E-DIR site, next to the root meaning "spirit, breathe" -

*ant-,  *anHt- "wild duck"

Hakan