Re[2]: [tied] bake

At 5:00:15 AM on Friday, April 11, 2003, tgpedersen wrote:

> My original question, to which I still don't know the
> answer, was whether that preparing-food word was related
> to the sharing/distributing(-food?) word in Iranian that
> eventually in tht Slavic languages became 'Bog' "God" (and
> the root of the 'bogat- ' "rich" word).

Not according to Watkins, who derives Engl <bake> from
*bHeh1- 'to warm' (or rather, from the zero-grade extension
*bH&g-) and Slavic <bogU> from *bhag- 'to share out; to get
a share'. Looks like he largely concurs with Pokorny on
these two roots.

Brian