Re: [tied] Re: Daci

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From: tgpedersen

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 4:13 PM

Subject: [tied] Re: Daci

> Yes, of course, it is a banal and obvious metaphor. That's why I limited myself to toponyms. (BTW does Polish have any toponyms based on gl/e,bina?)

 

All the deeps of the Baltic Sea are called <gl/e,bia> (e.g. <Gl/e,bia Bornholmska, G. Gdan'ska, G. Gotlandzka>), which is a variant of <gl/e,bina>.

> I assume -eto- is cognate with Latin -ita-, Germanic -T- (<depth>)?

No, it isn't; they only look similar. The respective PIE prototypes are *-et-o- and *-i-tah2-. Germanic de-adjectival abstracts have the latter (> *-iþo: '-th' [f.]); Latin uses an extended form of the same: *-i-tah2-t- > -ita:-t-.

 

Piotr