Re: Rex-Raj-Rix

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: tgpedersen
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 10:17 AM
> Subject: [tied] Re: Rex-Raj-Rix
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> > There's an unaccounted-for /i/ in German 'reichen' (because of

Benveniste's idea of the rex as a kind of surveyor, I think it
belongs with 'rex'). But even if that were a side form it would only
account for a hypothetical **rik-

>
> Ger. reichen and English reach (OE ræ:can) come from *raik-jan-, a

West Germanic word without any clear cognates anywhere. A
hypothetical pre-Germanic **raig- does not look like a good match for
*h3re(:)g^- unless some special scenario (borrowing from an unknown
language in which *e(:) was diphthongised?) is assumed, but this is
precisely the kind of ad hoc assumption that I don't particularly
care for, personally.

>
> Piotr

I don't know why Austronesian, AfroAsiatic and Finno-Ugric suddenly
spring to mind?

Torsten