--- In cybalist@..., "Danny Wier" <dawier@...> wrote:
> According to the American Heritage Dictionary (online):
English "god" and German "Gott" came from IE *gheu(@)-, "to call,
invoke", suffixed zero-grade form *ghu-to-, "the invoked (one)".
Pokorny's root is *g^hau- (#413). ~DaW~
Thanks a lot, Danny. God has complex roots in the mists of language!
Could the IE *gheu- be cognate with Vedic.
hve- (a phoneme which occurs in a score of Sanskrit lexemes, e.g.
hava_mahe, juhve...)> hve = to call , call upon , summon ,
challenge , invoke (R.gveda).
In Tamil, the root is iku- as in: iku-ttal = to call, invite.