Hooks (was: Geiss)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 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.

Onions connects *xo:k- with Old English _haca_ 'bolt', Old High
German _ha:ko_ 'hook' and Russian _kogot'_ 'claw, iron hook'. It
looks highly parallel to the rejected *xo:ki:n -_koza_ connection.

Richard.