Re: [tied] sah2 'parch'

16-08-03 23:06, Richard Wordingham wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
> wrote:
>> For others, a lurking laryngeal might still exist, as in *sxal-
>> (*sh2al-) for *sal- "salt" which may then be connected with
>> *sax- "to parch".
>
> I don't recognise the last root. Is it related to saus-, sus-
> (Pokorny #1651) 'dry'?

Why not? *s(a)h2-us- could be of participial origin. I think Glen is
referring to an obiter observation of mine, made on Cybalist when it was
still a very young list.

Piotr