Re: [tied] The Indo-European or Persian term for "Year" or "Annual"

>Or perhaps the basic "Indo-European" root
>for this idea of "yearly" or "annual"?

Along with *yer-, there's also *wet- based on:

Old English /we�er/ "castrated ram"
OHG /widar/ "lamb"
Gothic /wi�rus/ "lamb"
Latin /vetus/ "old", /vitilus/ "calf, yearling"
Sanskrit /vatsa/ "calf, child"
Greek /etos/ "year"


= gLeN

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