Re: [tied] *pak-, *pah2

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From: tgpedersen

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Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 3:54 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] *pak-, *pah2

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-
language@......> wrote:
 

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Actually I think most of the roots I mentioned are derivatives from
the loan word *h2ap- "water". The words for "flat" and "graze" are
joined semantically by referring to low-lying meadows along rivers,
being especially fertile (*p-i- "fat; juicy"). Cf
Basque 'bide' "road", Trask notes that because of the nature of the
Basque country, roads run along rivers.

PCR:

In my opinion, 'fat' is based on another unrelated root:

 

*po, 'swell up' + *i, derivative, adjective formant

 

I think you have it in your list as *pu, 'master'.

 

 

 

One could make a half-parodied IE root for "flat (area)":
*(p)(l)a(n)(t)-

PCR:

More than "half" I would say.

 

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Patrick