Re: [tied] One.

On Sat, 3 Nov 2001 15:15:44 +0100, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>The actual Slavic reflex of PIE "one" is *inU, recycled semantically as "another, diferent". The original meaning survives in a couple of old compounds -- *ino-rogU 'unicorn' and *ino-xodU 'amble, lateral gait'.

Ban'kowski proposes <in(n)y> "other" < inU < *oin-os.

>It may be contained (as *-in-) in *edinU 'one' > *jedinU (with the variant *jedInU), East Slavic *odinU, though I don't know of a really convincing interpretation of *ed- (a locative particle like *e-dH(i)-?).

There's Armenian <ez> "sole, one (Pol. jedyny)" (< *h1edh-o-) e.g. <ez
te^r> "the one God". Alexis Manaster-Ramer once proposed a "vrddhi"
form *e-dhH1 < *dheh1- "to put (together), assemble". But I have to
go now. Details later.