Re: [tied] Of bulls and balls

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Of bulls and balls




The little that we know about Thracian does not exclude the
possibility that <bolinthos> belongs to this word-family as
well. Eng. ballock < OE bealluc 'testicle' imply
non-diminutive OE *beallu < *bHol-n-u-s (its direct descendant
is Eng. ball). My guess is that <bolintHos> reflects *bHol-
plus hard-to-analyse suffixes, perhaps the Thracian version of
whatever underlies Greek nouns in -a:s, -antos (as in
<elepHa:s>). Duridanov's analysis of the word as *bHl.n-ent-
(not your "bhun-ent-", which owes its form to careless
copying) is also worth considering. The latter solution
assumes that syllabic *l gave Thr. ol, which is possible but
hard to confirm for lack of reliable evidence. In any case
there is no connection with *gWou-, and no support for Mr.
Vinereanu's fantasies.

Piotr

[Moeller]
hmm.. it could be a commedy of errors and it seems there are
not so many evidences for gW in thracian as for kW ( here is
no discution for kW>p).The one I gave you brandu$a<*gWrendh
was killed by you with the another radical *brendh:-)
Anyway, there is still a lot to search. I got now plenty of
material to study about. But because the things of the bull,
maybe you will like to know the romanian word for testicles
which is called "boa$e".The DEX means boa$e come from latin
"bursa"=not found by me in my Stowasser latin dictionary.By
the way the romanian equivalent for greek phallus it seems is
wellknown and matches perfectly the greek word ( if you do not
know the word , i will tell you in private:-)
Who knows when ever it will use somewhere..