Re: [tied] Re: IE "honeycomb" expressions

From: petusek
Message: 34102
Date: 2004-09-10

Daniel J. Milton wrote:
>> Does anybody know if and how following expressions denoting
>the "honeycomb" could be connected? I am lost.
>>
>> There is a word in Czech, having the same meaning: "strdí". If
>we
>compared it to other Slavic expressions, we can get PS
>*strIdI/strIdU. It has been compared to MidNld ro:te,
>röte "honeycomb", Nld raat and G Ross(e), all < PG hruti < IE
>*k^rudi- ? Could it be like that?
>>
>> Then, what about these:
>>
>> Latin "kerion"
>> Russian "korz^"
>> French: "rayon"
>>
>> Petusek
>***********
> 'kerion' is Greek < 'keros' "wax".
> The Latin for honeycomb is 'favus'. I have no idea of the
>etymology.
>Dan

Yes, that's right, "favus", I'm sorry for the mistake - I took it from the
on-line dicctionary at http://slovnik.cz/ My regular Czech-Latin dicctionary
says "favus", too. Thank you.

Petusek