Re: [tied] The Scythian Brothers

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> Skt. lip- (limpati) 'smear, anoint, pollute' might
> perhaps work. One would expect Proto-Iranian *rip-
> (I don't know if it's attested in Iranian), with
> *ri- > *li- in the lambdicising dialect in question.
> The underlying IE root is *leip- 'stick, adhere;
> fat' (as in Slavic *le^piti), with fairly general
> and varied semantics. /..../ Herodotus writes the

name Lipoxais with <ei>,

> which suggests [i:] in the Scythian prototype and I
> have no idea how to justify a long vowel here.
>
> Piotr

******GK: Perhaps Herodotus was reporting from a
dialect which had retained the IE "ei". Thanks for all
this, Piotr, and best wished for the New Year.*****

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