From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 37563
Date: 2005-05-04
Joao SL
>> Linguistics can bring some clue to ellucidate IE vestuary? Any name
>> for skirts, shirts, tunics, dresses, or anything else?
There is a word for shoes : *ker(&)p.
Otherwise they must have been naked.
Or else they wore past participles, from verbs for
weaving: *weg *webh *bher
covering : *sk'ed *(s)keu *k'em *(s)kep *(s)teg
etc
Or else they committed ablaut, and made nouns from those verbs (e.g. toga)
Peter
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