Re: [tied] Re: illyrian lexicon or inventory

Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:01:16 +0100, alex <alxmoeller@...>
> wrote:
>
>> I suposse there is too the simply *(j)azU in Slavic meaning too
>> "lake" is it?
>> which should be the PIE root of it?
>
> Pokorny: *eg^hero- "Landsee"?
>
> The questionmark is not there without reason. Besides the
> Baltic-Slavic equation OPr assaran, Lith. e~z^eras, Latv. ezers, OCS
> (j)ezero, Russ. ozero, which makes the word proto-Balto-Slavic, not
> proto-Indo-European, the rest of the lemma is doubtful.
> Slavic *e^zU "Kanal; Wasserwehr; Fischzaun" must be from *eg^- not
> *eg^h-, so cannot be related (I would think the same applies to
> Baltic *ez^ya: "Grenzstreifen"). Likewise, Pannonian Oseria~tes,
> Grk. Akhéro:n cannot come from *eg^h- either.
>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

I was thinking at the word "oasis" now which semanticaly would fit,
phonetically -apparently- would fit too.
but the Greek word is seen as a loan from hamitic otherways one should
have thought at a IE root.

Alex