--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., alexmoeller@... wrote:
>
>
>Latin <capillum ~
> capillus> 'hair of the head' (hence <capilla:tus>, used also of

Roman

> aristocrats) occurs in Plautus almost three centuries before the
> Dacian wars; so does <pilleus> 'felt hat'

in Plautus?

>(a popular type of hedgear
> also in Rome, hence <pillea:tus>). <capillus> derives from Latin
> <caput, capit-> 'head' (perhaps slightly hybridised with <pil(l)->;
> <pilleus> < *pil-s-ejo-s is related to Latin <pilus> 'hair' and

Greek

> <pi:los> 'felt, (felt) cap'.
>
> Piotr

Is it possible to bring Latin pileus and Greek pi:los under one
(felt) hat, or should we assume a loan from elsewhere (probably IE,
*p-l- "smash, break, make into a pulp", of felt)?

Torsten