Re: Elbow, forearm

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 23:58:04 +0000, Richard Wordingham
> <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
>
> >I gather that 'ablaut now holds few
> >secrets'. How do the various words
> >for elbow, forearm, e.g. English
> >'ell', Latin 'ulna', Greek
> >'o:lene:', 'o:le:r' and 'o:llon' all
> >relate?
>
> I cannot find a Greek form o:le:r in IEW, EIEC or Boissacq.
>
> The Greek forms given are <o:léne:>; <o:lé:n>, <-énos> and (Hes.)

<o:llón>

> (IEW <ô:llon>).

<o:lé:r> must be a misprint for <o:lé:n> in the Oxford Etymological
Dictionary. It also gives <ô:llon> - is this stress a lexicographic
ghost?

Thank-you for the explanation. I'm tempted to present the PIE root
as h1oh3len- to those of limited understanding.. Does h1&3léy-
appear anywhere but Tocharian?

Richard.