Re: [tied] Re: Gland

From: alex
Message: 32585
Date: 2004-05-12

Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
>> And, at the end, which is the emymology of the Latin <glans, -dis>?
>
> Konushevci


as per Walde-Hoffmann:

IE *gW(e)l-an-d or gW(e)l-a:nd because of the OCS z^el~odI

Walde Hoffman gives an Dacian "gouoleta" here but I don't see why.
I wonder if in Romance the meaning "acor of the penis" as in Latin was
preserved. In Romanian for sure not. There is simply used "head" and
not "acord" in corelation with gentialiy (the same for clitoris, there
is nothing which will point to "acor" as in other languages as Latin,
Old Indic, etc.)

Alex