[tied] Re: ANUS

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

>
>
> Slavic languages have *rimU ~ *rymU as variant forms. The word was

probably

> borrowed via a Germanic dialect (Lat. ro:ma was borrowed as *ru:m-

into very

> early Germanic,

Why? And it's not < Etruscan?

>and u: > Slavic y; *i may derive from umlauted /u:/ in the
> Germanic adjective *ru:m-iska- --> Slavic *rim-Isk-).

Torsten