Re: [tied] Re: Cimmerians and Amazons

On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:16:16 +0000, "Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...>" <piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, " Alexander Stolbov" <astolbov@...>
>wrote:
>
>> If I'm not mistaken the root of this word is in all probability a
>part of the IE heritage (not a loan from a non-IE source). Original
>meaning of this word seems to be 'winter' (Indian Himalayas and
>Russian zima are cognates of it).
>> What is the PIE form of it?
>
>*g^Hei-m-, *g^Hj-em-, *g^Hi-m- or any of these with more suffixes.

I'm not sure I understand the formation of khímaira. It appears to be
from *g^himr.ya < *g^himrih2, wehere we can explain syllabic /r./ as a
Greek development after *-ih2 had become *-ya. But the masculine form
is khímaros. *g^himr.-os?

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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