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

Could be a contamination of *pezdh- by root gwHdHer- ?

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


> >my Gk. dictionary gives the word
> >as _phtheir_ (gen. phtheiros). How would it be then with the
> derivation?
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> Greek phtheir is to be taken from the same root as phtheirw, < *gwhdher,
to
> waste away Pokorny p 487. On page 737 Pokorny offers the Albanian morr
> "louse" derived from *morko- "the scratchey thing") as a possible
parallel
> development.
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> Peter
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