Enclosed Places (was: The unexplained link between Greek/Latin and

On Saturday, July 12, 2003 12:58 AM
From: "Miguel Carrasquer" <mcv@...>

> On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:20:09 +0000, "A.S.Sundar" > <yasun52@...>

wrote:

>> 1)'Urb-` in Latin(L) means `city'. In Tamil (TL) `Ur'
>>means `habitation',place where you live'.

>The Latin word is derived from PIE *g^hordh- "enclosed place" (like
>Russian gorod, -grad). No connection.

How secure is the derivation? I would expect something like Latin *horbus
or *horbis / *horbs, cf. hortus 'garden', which may well be related to
*g^hordh- through a different suffix/extension. Pokorny sounds sceptical
from the way he cites the word, 'über lat. urbs `Stadt', angeblich aus
*ghordhos, s. Georgiev IF. 56, 200'.

Richard.