[tied] Re: Indo-European for Uralic speakers

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

> 16-09-03 15:30, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Thank you Glen. I was having my weekly non-laryngeal day. BTW,

turns

> > out "handle" (on eg. cauldron) is *ans- (*h2ans-). All this

material

> > for punning must have caused much Celtic anhilarity.
>
> If only the Celts had had it. Alas, the *h2ans- root doesn't seem

to be

> attested in Celtic.

Ha! It has been attested on this website, which presumably has been
made by two bona fide Celts (and who am to argue):

http://members.aol.com/IrishWord/protocelt.htm

together with *an- "pour, draw water". Brrr!

>But Latin has <ansa> 'handle' and <anser> 'goose'.
> Geese and cauldrons ... a goose cult? .... Capitoline geese? The

plot

> thickens ;-)
>

Indeed!

Torsten