Re: [tied] PIE blood

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 15480
Date: 2002-09-14

What a crude and cruel root! :)
 
Piotr
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: João Simões Lopes Filho
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] PIE blood

This root developed many meanings: 'blood', 'coagulated blood', 'raw',
'meat', 'corpse', 'cold' (Greek kryos), > 'ice' (Greek krystallon). It's an
interesting etymological "family". I think the original meaning was
'coagulated blood'.