[tied] Re: Andere

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 04:54:22 +0000, loreto bagio
> <bagoven20@...> wrote:
>
> >To bother Greek-Basque associations again, how would Basque (h)

andi

> >and Spanish 'gigante' (English 'giant' from Gk 'gigantikos'
> >or 'gigas') relate?
>
> Not. Basque handi (also haundi) comes from *and- plus
> adjectival suffix *-i. I'm pretty sure the root *and must
> be a borrowing, because old *nd/*nt gives Basque /d/ (e.g.
> *s^un- "to smell" -> sudurr "nose" (< *s^un + tur/dur).
>

Vennemann proposes a Proto-Vasconic *grandi > (h)andi was loaned into
Romance (grand-) and Germanic (great, gross-). Now you've made an
orphan out of it;-)

Torsten