[tied] Re: Ducks and Souls

> I just learned *anet- "duck" must have a sideform *anat- based on
> Swedish dialects, so I add it to the "language of bird names".
>

It would therefore strengthen the case of *akus-/*akis- "axe" being
a 'bird name language' import if it had an a-less sideform with more
vowel in the next syllable. Such as *kov-, Russian kovat', English
hew. No, I don't know what happened to the /s/.

Torsten