Re: [tied] Re: about the wrong roots

On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 16:54:49 +0200, g <george.st@...> wrote:

>
>>of Grk. skulax, Ir. cuile:n, Lith. kale: "puppy, bitch" (*skeu-l-,
>>*skeu-n-?).
>
>What do *skeu-l- and *skeu-n- mean?

Buck, p. 180 (3.612 PUPPY):

Grk. skúlax, NG skuláki, Ir. cuilén, NIR. coileán, W (obs.) colwyn, OCorn.
coloin (gl. catulus), Br. kolen (only in cpds. like kolen-ki 'puppy',
etc.), beside Lith. kale: 'bitch', Alb. kulish 'puppy' (kelüs^ in G. Meyer,
Alb. Etym. Wtb.), all prob. belonging together, but root connection?

The meaning is "puppy", except Lith. kale: "bitch". *skeu-n- was my
invention (whence the question mark).

>Coincidentally or not,
>in Romanian "a schel&l&i, -ire, -it" and "a scheuna, -are, -at;"
>ind. pres. 3rd pers. singular: "schiaun&;" substantives:
>"scheunat + schiaun", "chiau" + vb. "a chefni, -ire, -it" -- all
>of them are seen as onomatopoeic wailings (except for chefnit
>and chiau, that are short barks).
>
>Or are these related to *(s)kwel5, record no. 1726 (Pokorny)?

That's what Pokorny suggests.

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