Re: [tied] bathys

Thanks Brian,
this is not in Pokorny's, isn't it?
It seems that Pokorny derives bathys (actually the maybe related word
bythos) from a metathesis of *dheu-b 'deep'. Very unlikely.

Antonio

At 11:57 16.03.2003 -0500, you wrote:

>At 11:20:35 AM on Sunday, March 16, 2003, Antonio Sciarretta
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> > Any ideas on the etymology of Gk. bathys 'deep' ?
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>Watkins derives it from the zero grade of PIE *gWa:dH- 'to
>sink' (or *gWeH2dH-) with a suffix *-u-. There's an Old
>Irish <báidid> 'drowns, sinks, wrecks'.
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>Brian
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