Re: [tied] Re: Latin [homo] from PIE *dhgho_mon- = Earth dweller?

Abdullah Konushevci wrote:

> --- In 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".
> ************
> 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 <dh�> 'earh' (<*(dh)g^ho:-).
> To my view, suffix -on is also present in *wekWo:m teks-on 'words
> weaver', my true vocation.
>
> Konushevci

what about Bulgarian "huma"(argile)? I suppose this is a loan but from which
language?

AlexM