Re: [tied] Re: bake

Abdullah and Piotr:

>>It seems that PIE root *bhag- have had very deep religious meaning
>>Albanian word Buzmi '(Tree-) trunk, Christmas log. Nata e buzmit
>>Christmas Eve', an suffixed form of zero-grade of PIE *bhag-,
>>testifies about it.
>
>Best of all, the Slavic word for 'god, God' is *bogU (probably an
>Iranism); that, I suppose, is as religious as anything can get.

Hmmm. Now this is starting to get me to wonder whether there was
some IE connection between *bHag- and *bHaxgo- "beech". I wonder
because of the ancient World Tree theme that seems to connect with
creation and prehistoric cosmology. Or maybe that's just a
half-baked idea... hehehe.


- gLeN


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