[tied] Re: *(H-)p/bh[-r/l-] again again

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Marco Moretti"
<marcomoretti69@...> wrote:

> Now I make some search on Pokorny IE Wo"rterbuch, and I found

*peit-

> "fat" > "nourishment" (German Nahrung).
> I was definitely wrong in quoting Greek /pi:^sos/ as "pea".
> It is /pi/sos/ with short /o/, while /pi:^sos/ has the meaning
> of "swamp, bog". I beg your pardon. But in my Latin vocabulary I
> found /pi:sum/ with long /i:/. Probably it is a printing mistake.

If so, it is an authoritative mistake. Charlton and Lewis (as
quoted at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%
3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3D%2336467 ) gives it with a long
vowel. French _pois_ does argue for a short vowel.

Richard.