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

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

Why? *gwhdher works well enough. *gwhdh- develops to phth- in other
Greek words, eg phthisis. We had some discussion of these initial clusters
a while back. SO I don't think we need contamination.

Peter

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> > >my Gk. dictionary gives the word
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> > Greek phtheir is to be taken from the same root as phtheirw, < *gwhdher,
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> > waste away Pokorny p 487. On page 737 Pokorny offers the Albanian morr
> > "louse" derived from *morko- "the scratchey thing") as a possible
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> > development.
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