From: João S. Lopes Filho
Message: 10193
Date: 2001-10-13
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From: Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 5:38 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] IE numbers
> BTW, *-w(e)r- is not necessarily *-w-(e)r-. It it were complex, we
> would expect the "missing link" *-w- to occur independently. Of
> course PIE has *-u- stems, but nomina obiecti in *-wr are not derived
> from them. For example, *h1edwr 'food' is not (unattested and
> semantically uninterpretable) **h1edu- + *-r but *h1ed- + *-wr.
Could *h1edu- be related to Germanic *etunaz <*h1edunos "giant", litterally
"eater"?