Re: [tied] Re: Nordwestblock self-designation?

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 28043
Date: 2003-12-06

On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 14:00:00 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

>As for etymology, how about the just discussed *yeu- (ppp *yut-),
>which would make the Nordwestblock IE, but not Germanic (in which the
>root exists only as a reflex of *yeu-g-, afaIk).

I recall (don't remember the source) an etymology *eud-os, pl. *uedó:s(es)
"those of the water", a vrddhi-derivative if *ud- "water".

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