Re: PIE nit, louse's egg

EIEC gives *k^(o)nid-

Adams writes in "Louse", p. 357:
--start quote--
"Though its exact PIE shape is difficult to reconstruct because of its
various descendants have undergone phonological deformation of one
sort or another, this word seems clearly to have been originally
pan-IE."
--end quote--

Yes, this is the ancestor of English 'nit'. The PIEs seems to have
been a pretty lousy folk, overall.

--- In cybalist@..., "João S. Lopes Filho" <jodan99@...> wrote:
> What's the PIE for louse's egg, nit?
>
> Latin lens
> Latvian gni~da
> Lithuanuan glinda
> Irish sned, gnit
> Welsh nedd
> Grk konis "dust"
> OE hnitu = OHG hniz < PGerm *hnito:
> Albanian theni
> Armenian anic
> Russian gnida (Other Slavic equivalents?)
>
> It seems to exist a lot of corrupted variations of the same base.
> I'd try to explain Latin as
>
> *gnNd- (or knNd-) > gnend- > nend-> dissimilation > lend-. PIE
*gnNd- (or knNd-) can explain Latvian, Lithuanina (dissimilated)
> Other words point to a *gnid-.
> Greek, Germanic and Albanian point to a *k^nid-.