Re: [tied] Re: Loans from afar

At 5:16:02 AM on Thursday, April 21, 2005, tgpedersen wrote:

> 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".

What's wrong with the usual explanation of it as a causative
of <bíta> 'to bite'?

Brian