Re: [tied] correction [Re: Weeping]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 23:11:53 +0100, alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

>I don't repeat these things since you know them as well too.
>Is there any need to say that Latin "haedus" is a loan word from a
>language which developed IE *h2aig^- to *haid- and which gave in Latin
>"haedus"?

No need at all, because it would be stupid. *h2 was lost [almost]
everywhere outside of Anatolian, and did not give h- in any language Latin
might have borrowed anything from. Latin <haedus> obviously comes from
*ghaidos, just like Goth. gaits, E. goat, Du. geit, German (dial.) Geiss.

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