Re: [tied] Scythian Cognates

>Where does the meaning 'penis' occur? ('prick' glossing the Gothic
>word does not have the anatomical sense). Anyway, it looks like an
>attractive possibility.

"Penis" occurs in Middle Irish bot. The other Celtic cognates are
Gallo-Latin bottos "wheel-nave", Welsh both, "wheel nave/shield
boss".

>*bHa:t- is suspect as a PIE root, since it also violates the well-
>known phonotactic constraint prohibiting "breathy" and "voiceless"
>in the same base. How strongly is it attested?

In Pokorny, PIE *bha:t-/*bhet- "strike" seems to be behind Latin
fatuus "foolish", Welsh bathu "to mint money", Sanskrit
batati "slay", as well as Russian bate "Eichenstock", and may lie
behind Danish bad "battle".

- Chris Gwinn