Re: E-DIR Quibble

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> 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).

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> Piotr
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Håkan Lindgren
> To: Cybalist
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 9:33 PM
> Subject: [tied] Re: E-DIR Quibble
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> 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" -

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> *ant-, *anHt- "wild duck"
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> Hakan

That *is* the "duck" root. I don't claim they are related (they might
and might not be), I just thought that the duck might have been used
in a rebus-like fashion, to stand for "spirit", if the two words were
similar-sounding too in the language of the Hallstatt people
(probably a Celtic dialect).

Torsten