--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
<S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Rob" <magwich78@...> wrote:
> >
> > Okay. Does *putós come from *pewt-ó- or *pew-t-ó-? The latter
> term
> > seems to have _four_ non-vocalic (by the time of 'classical' IE)
> > phonemes: *kwts-. Is that from an extended root *kewt-s- or a
> doubly
> > extended one *kew-t-s-?
> >
>
> I can't answer these questions -- it's out of my competence.
Anybody?
>
Schrijver lists a similar root in his 'language of geminates'
loanword source (which has alternations medial -K-/-KK-/-nK- for K =
any stop). Thus you get a cognate group including *kut-/*kutt-/*kunt-
(and _no_ IE vocalism), cf Dutch 'kut', Danish 'kusse', "vulva",
Finnish 'kuusi'/'kuuden'(?), even Sw./Da. 'kött'/'kød' "meat",
English 'chitlings' all meaning "repulsive internal stuff". One might
make interesting speculations about the quality of the foodstuff the
aboriginal (non-IE?) population of Scandinavia and England ate and
about social dividing lines.
Torsten