Re: [tied] dracones

At 5:12:04 PM on Saturday, March 1, 2003, alex_lycos wrote:

> draco: meaning in Latin , just snake, diminutive ->
> dracunculus My dictionary gives the Latin word as a loan
> from Greek "drakon". If this should be indeed a Greek
> word, which should be the PIE form and the etymology of
> the word? Any cognates in other IE languages?

See Pokorny, */derk^-/ 'to look'; <drako:n> would represent
*/dr.k-on(t)-/. Watkins has suggested that <dris> in OIr
<muirdris> 'some kind of sea-monster' (<muir> 'sea') is
cognate, from */dr.k-si-/ or fem. */dr.k-sih2-/.

Brian