Re: Loans from afar

From: tgpedersen
Message: 37282
Date: 2005-04-21

>
> > pa[']&n "(what serves a fodder =) bait", *pah2-
> > cf. 'umpan id.
> > pakan "fodder"
> > vgl. ka|&n "food stores"
> > pan,an "dish"
> > vgl. ka|&n "food stores",
> > pakanII "fodder"
> http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE369.html

Greek, with unexpected, an supposedly rare b- :

bósko: "(I) herd, feed; graze"
boté:r "herdsman"
bósis "food, fodder"
boú-botos "cow-pasture"

cf. ON beita "let graze". *paH- has a sideform with the extension
-s, which is often coupled with another extension in -i to the same
root.

Torsten