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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> 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 <dhé> '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

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Not only in Bulgarian, but also in Albanian it was very present. Is
it a loan from Lat. <humens, -tis> 'wet, moisten' I am not sure, for
it was used as <soap>, <shampoo> during the washing of the body.

Konushevci