Re: [tied] Fwd: PIE for wash

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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Fwd: PIE for wash


> > > > Latin
> > > > muscus
> > >>Proto-Germanic *waskan
> > > > 'wash',
> > > I take it then that these are indeed the
> > > only forms for *m-sk and *w-sk.

> I recall it as being *mozg-. I'll go check.

PIE *mus-o- 'moss, bog' is decently attested (Slavic *mUxU, Germanic
*musa-), and *mus-ko- is just a suffixed variant of that.

Piotr