Re: E-DIR Quibble

--- In cybalist@..., João Simões Lopes Filho <jodan99@...> wrote:

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

Maybe! Do spirits swim?
Torsten

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <tgpedersen@...>
> To: <cybalist@...>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 9:35 AM
> Subject: [tied] Re: E-DIR Quibble
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> > --- 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).
> > >
> > > 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
> >
> > 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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