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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Anthony Appleyard"
<a.appleyard@...> wrote:
> Latin [homo \ hominis] = "man". Compare Anglo-Saxon [guma]
= "man". I
> suspect a derivation from Indo-European [dhghomo_n-] = "Man, Earth
> being", from IE [dhgho_m] = Greek [khtho_n] = Sanskrit [ks.am] =
> Tokharian [tekam] = "earth".
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As far as we know, Latin <homo, -inis> is derived from *(dh)g^hom-on-
'earthling'. So, from suffixed o-grade form of PIE root *dhg^hem-
'earth' and <humus> 'earth' of suffixed o-grade form *(dh)g^hom-o-,
where -s is nominative singular ending. Reduced lengthened o-grade
form yields in Albanian <dhé> 'earh' (<*(dh)g^ho:-).
To my view, suffix -on is also present in *wekWo:m teks-on 'words
weaver', my true vocation.
Konushevci