Re: [tied] Re: Venus [was: Why borrow 'seven'? (was: IE right & 10)]

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 34489
Date: 2004-10-06

On 04-10-05 12:56, Sean Whalen wrote:

> I think *wesperos is a regional dialectal compound
> word using *wes- "west". Germanic has variants from
> *wes-tos and *wes-(e)i, or something similar.

What about East Baltic *vakaras and Slavic *vec^erU (+ the lexicalised
case-form *vIc^era 'yesterday'), pointing to something like *wek(W)ero-
(with slight complications)?

Piotr