Re: Latin va:gi:na - PIE?

> könnte lat. va:gi:na (vgl. nhd. Scheide zu scheiden) auch zu einer
> Wurzel wa(:)g- 'spalten, brechen'
> [...]
> und im tochar. wa:k- 'sich spalten', Kaus. 'spalten, unterscheiden',
> wa:käm n. 'Besonderheit, Vorzug' finden will.
>
> Watson assigns it to *wa:g- 'to break, split, bite', perhaps from
> *weh2g-, suggesting that sheaths were originally made of a split piece
> of wood.
>
> Brian

cf. Hungarian <vág> [va:g]

"cut; chip; chop; clip; section; hew; pare; saw; slash; slit" / (with
prefix: "sever; notch, cut in; excise; cut off") / (figurative,
extended: "hit, slap, strike")"

- the noun corresponding to all these verbs: <vágás> ['va:ga:S]
- another noun derived from <vág>: <vágány> rails, track/s

George