Re: [tied] Re: E-DIR Quibble

Maybe h2anHt- "duck" < (h2)neH2- "to swimm" ?

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Subject: [tied] 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
> >
> >
> > 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"
> >
> > Hakan
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> 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
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