[tied] Re: *h2an-su-?

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

> 08-07-03 13:23, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> >> Aha, and you skipped elegantly over the other 50%. Which makes

me

> >> wonder: what is *-so-?
>
> A derivative suffix, making nouns out of verb roots in the o-grade,

as

> in Eng. wasp < *waspa- ~ *wafsa- < *wobH-so- from *webH- 'weave' or

Eng.

> flax < *flaxsa- < *plok^-so- from *plek^- 'plait, fold' (in

addition to

> the example already given).
>
> >

Thanks.

> > I hurry to add:
> >
> > Etruscan 'sval' "to live"
> > Hurrian 'sawl' "health, prosperity"
> >
> > see
> >
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nostratic-L/message/32
> >
> > not to mention similar traces in Finno-Ugric. Loanword?
>
> Can't see a connection. What's that got to do with the form or

function

> of *-so-?

With my idea that it's -*suH-, rather. The fact that *suH- is loaned
into Baltic Finnic gave me the idea that it's a Wanderwort. As might
be surmised from rummaging through

http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/dyw.html

Torsten