Re: [tied] PIE nit, louse's egg

Oh,you're sure, that's phtheir...I put the genitive in the place of the
nominative. The changes in the forms of names of insects are so common.
Perhaps phtheir < *pzdh(w)ers ?, was a corrupted form, with some kind of
suffix.

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From: Petr Strossa <kizips@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] PIE nit, louse's egg


> > From: "Joăo S. Lopes Filho" <jodan99@...>
> > Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:00:44 -0300
> >
> > Louse in Latin is pedis ( diminutive pedic(u)lu in Romance), which
> > must be <*pezdhi-. cf. Avestan pazdu- "kind of insect" (*pezdhu-)
> > and Greek phtheiros (*pzdh-erio- or *pzdhei-ro or *pzdhw-erio-).
>
> Sorry for the stupid question, but my Gk. dictionary gives the word
> as _phtheir_ (gen. phtheiros). How would it be then with the
> derivation?
>
> And, BTW, both Pokorny and Watkins seem to derive Lat. pedis from
> *pezd- "to fart". I would like the idea of *pezdh- being assimilated
> to *pezd- in some of the languages. But is the Gk. phtheir really
> enough to argue for *pezdh-? Couldn't it rather be Gk. that changed
> the original root for some special reason?
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