Re: Expletives (was Re: [tied] All of creation in Six and Seven)

> From: Miguel Carrasquer [mailto:mcv@...]
> *k^okWros is reflected in Greek kópros. In view of Skt.
> s'ákr.t, s'aknás,

And Lithuanian _s^iknà_ 'arse', if _s^ikti_ 'defecate' is a back-formation
(/i/ being a propvowel, thus as if <*k^kWn-, probably with some generalizing
or other morphological recycling)?

> the PIE form is perhaps better
> reconstructed as an r/n-stem *k^okWr.(t), *k^ékWnos.

Sergei