From: Sean Whalen
Message: 34475
Date: 2004-10-05
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:I think *wesperos is a regional dialectal compound
> > So, this being explained, it would be tempting to
> expect *wes- is
> > related to a root *us- considering that so much of
> the grammar in
> > Tyrrhenian languages is uncannily evocative of
> older stages of IE.
> From: "Joao" <josimo70@...> Date: Wed Sep 22, 2004
> 6:40 pm
> Subject: Cardinal Points: Vesper and Shower
> Latin vesper and Greek hespero points to a PIE
> *wesperos "evening,
> west, sunset". It seems perfect. Too perfect. Is
> there some
> possibility that or Italic *vesperos or Proto-Greek
> *wesperos were
> borrowed from one to another? I think it's strange
> that so clear
> roots is not present in another IE language.Germanic
> has a cognate
> *westaz, with an anomalous Gothic visi-
> (<*west-si-?).What are the
> another IE cognates of this root *wes-?