Re: [tied] Religious terms , here saint

Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> Avestan sp&nta-, Lithuanian s^ventas, Slavic sveNtU point to PIE
> *k^wentos and nothing else.
>
> Avestan Lithuanian Slavic
> PIE *sw- xv- sv- sv-
> PIE *k^w- sp- s^v- sv-

an *swentos shouldn't make any trouble in satem space , would it?

>
>> As for Latin "sanctus", I could not find the etymology of it.
>> I could find the one of "sacer" but from "sacer" to "sanctus" it
>> seems just "sa-" is common here ; too little for deriving from
>> "sacer".
>
> It's the n-infix: *sak- > sacer, *sak-n- > *sa-n-k- > sanc-tus.

An infix which is not so easy explanable as the infix in infix of "n" in
"magnus". See your own derivation.
As well as the "sf-" should be seen as a phonological interdiction in
Latin? I don't see any word which begins with "sf-" in Latin.

>> OK. I will wait until you will find an another thracian word where
>> you will find an Rom. cognate here.For instance you will take Rom.
>> "Soricel"(little mouse) diminutival form "Soarece" and the etymology
>> acepted as from Latin "sorrex,-icis" and the thracian glosse
>> "tziorikellos" ( apud Deçev).
>
> If there wasn't an embargo on this subject, I would point out that the
> French word for "mouse" is <souris> < sori:ce. Maybe a
> Mäuserwanderung of Thracian mice to Northern Gaul?
>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

I wonder you say that;a Latin /so/ will never give an /So/ in Rom. As
for embargo, that should be placed after the subject is cleared.


Alex