Re: [tied] Greek -o:i

From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 37199
Date: 2005-04-15

But I think none of the femine -o: anthroponyms have IE satisfatory etymologies. Perhaps Le:to: can be related to *la:- "to cover, to hide" (cf.  *la:tr- > Sansk. Ra:tri: "The Night Goddess".
The other ones are still mysterious.
 
Joao SL

Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:59:47 -0300 (ART), "Joao S. Lopes"
<josimo70@...> wrote:

>Sakha is the cognate of socius?
>hastais cognate to os, osteon?

Yes.

>But are these feminine?

The Hittite word obviously isn't.
Neither is the Sanskrit word.

We can consider these oy-stems to be a special kind of
i-stems.  Gender assignment in the i-stems is also a
seemingly arbitary matter.

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