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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:> It's one of the best-attested IE
roots. Skt. da:ru, Gen. droh. < *doru, > *dreu-s or *drou-s (there
are other variants of the oblique stem as > well; the word is
archaic, irregular, and its forms are prone to > analogical
influence). In compounds the root may be reduced to <dru->...> Don't
confuse cognates with lookalikes. I don't think <ad.aru> is
> related to the rest. I may be wrong, but it looks like a purely
> Dravidian word. <devada:ru-> 'Cedrus deodara' is of course
literally > 'divine tree'.
Thanks a lot, Piotr for the guidance. I will be careful in avoiding
the trap of lookalikes.
But, then, there are some etyma, again semant. related to 'wood'
or 'tree/plant parts' which are pan-indic, for example:
d.i~_t.u, d.i~t.u~ leaf stalk (G.); d.a_t.ho fibres and stalk of
tobacco leaf (S.); d.at.hi, d.at.i = the petioles and mid-ribs of a
compound leaf after the leaflets have been plucked off, stalks of
certain plants, as Indian corn, after the grain has been taken off
(Santali)ta_~t.a = bark (Te.); ta_t.i = bark, skin (Ka.)(DEDR 3155).
tan.t.u = stalk, stem (Ta.Ma.); tad., tan.d. = stem of plant, trunk
of tree (Ko.); tod. = trunk of tree (Toda)
Any IE/PIE cognate forms for 'stalk/trunk' or 'bark'?