Re: [tied] a(i)s-

--- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Tue, 02 Oct 2001 09:08:54 -0000, tgpedersen@... wrote:
>
>
> >In the former, you would expect
> >an opaque word, but with difficult-to-derive cognates in
> >other languages in case the word was borrowed several times over
>
> In the case of *h2aies-, the cognates are regular, and the word is
> easily derivable from *h2ai- (*h2ai-dh-, etc.) "to heat".

Which would wrap up the case if *H2ay- had been an IE-only word. But
it has cognates in AfroAsiatic and FinnoUgric (says Bomhard) and
Sumerian and Austronesian (says Manansala), see

http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Hs.html

cf.

http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/tr.html


Wherefore the iron-word might be a re-loan.

Torsten