Re: [tied] dracones

Funny that Alex should be asking about it in the first place. The etymology of <drako:n> was discussed here in mid January.

Piotr

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "alex_lycos" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 7:06 PM
Subject: 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-/.