Re: [tied] Water, pre/postpositions, somewhat OT

On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 10:39:27 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>> On Sat, 29 May 2004 12:46:28 +0200, Miguel Carrasquer
>> <mcv@...> wrote:
>>
>> >The root of <ipini> and its variants such as <ibeni>,
>> ><imini> is more difficult to pin down. My guess is that
>> >i-pin-i represents *e-b(V)hin-i, while i-ben-i, with i-
>> >pointing to a high vowel in the root, is *e-beh(i)n-i or
>> >*e-bain-. <imini> is straightforward from *e-bin-i. If we
>> >combine all these, we get a possible root *-behin- or
>> >*-bahin-
>>
>> Cf. perhaps bahi-tu "to seize, capture; to pawn", bahi
>> "pawn, mortgage, bail", if the word is native (it might,
>> like E. "bail" be from Lat. bajulus "load carrier" (*bajula,
>> bajula:re) through French/Romance, but I can't imagine how
>> Romance *bailu/*baila could have given Bq. bahi).
>>
>
>Aha. Maybe an early loan from PIE *p-g- "pole; catch"

No. An early loan would have given *Vg-

>I had some qualms about adding Basque <bide> "road" to
>*p-d- "flat (land); foot",

That would have given *Vr- (perhaps aran "valley" < *padan).
<Bide> "road" must come from something like
*(m/b/w)i(nt/nd)e.

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