Re: Sincerely yours

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...>
wrote:

> However, I found in Lewis and Short's Latin Dictionary:
> "sincerus , a, um, adj. [sin- = sim-, v. simplex; root in Sanscr.
> sama, whole, together; and root skir-, Sanscr. kir-, pour out] ,
> clean, pure, sound, not spoiled, uninjured, whole, entire, real,
> natural, genuine, sincere "
> and a different root for the second element from Watkins in the

AHD

> under *ker- "grow":
> "Compound *sm-ke:ro- "of one growth".
>
> I couldn't check the Leiden Pokorny, which seems to be
> unreachable more often than not the last few weeks.

Sanskrit _kir_ (present _kiráti_) is assigned to Pokorny root #1736 *
(s)ker (there's a final laryngeal there) and the 'grow' root *k^er
is Pokorny root #927. Both roots actually have final laryngeals.
Pokorny does not relate Latin _since:rus_ to either root; probably
not to any root.

Richard.