Re: [tied] Geiss [Re: correction]

19-01-04 16:04, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:58:07 +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
>
>>6. Misreconstructions: Pokorny's kag^o- is one.
>
> Indeed Slav. koza rather points to *kag^h- (Winter's law) and is hard to
> reconcile with Gmc. *ho:k-i:n- (*ko:g-). Two independent words then? Any
> alternative connections?

My guess is that the Germanic word is a derivative of *xo:k- 'peg, hook'
(from the shape of the horns), and that it's unrelated to <koza>. I'm
not sure what to make of the latter; it appears to be isolated.

Piotr