*dheh1(i)-

> Georg Holzer (Entlehnung aus einer bisher unbekannten
> indogermanischen Sprache im Urslavischen und Urbaltischen, Wien

1989,

> also F. Kortlandt, in: Languages in Prehistoric Europe, Heidelberg
> 2003, 253-260) believes that the language of the Cimmerians was
> neither Iranian nor Slavonic (as believed by some Russian scholars),
> but an hitherto unknown Indo-European language, "Temematisch", which
> had mediae for IE tenues and tenues for IE aspirated mediae. His key
> example is: Greek Kimmerios / Russian sjabjor "peasant" < Temematic
> *k'embro- < IE *g'he:m-ro- "irdisch".
>

Eng. tit, teat, Danish tæve "bitch"; it would be nice to connect them
somehow to *dheh1(i)- "suckle", but how? None of Kuhn's other proposed
Nordwestblock roots in t- seem to connect to PIE roots in dh-.


Torsten