Re: [tied] alb. gji (breast)

From: P&G
Message: 18666
Date: 2003-02-10

> > Don't you find curious that just the noun snake is inherited but no
another word like: serpenti-gena, serpenti-pes, serpirastra, serpo,
serpullum?

(a) serpullum is not related.

(b) Serpenti-gena and serpenti-pes are one-off coinages, and hardly the sort
of thing we would expect to survive anyway. How often is there a need to
say "serpent-footed" in a real world?

(c) Someone asked about other forms of this root - the repo word is related.

Peter