From: C. Darwin Goranson
Message: 37864
Date: 2005-05-14
> Or Perhaps Germanic was originally Satem? k^>s^>X>h ?
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
> stoat < *stait- <*stoid, akin to Greek ktis, iktis "weasel"? *k(s)tid- ?
I'm going to hope your responses are meant in seriousness.
hundred/hundert > hund > khund > k@... (@ = schwa). It's a centum
one. The PIE is kh'mtom, if my memory serves me right.
As for the stoat hypothesis, it seems a bit of a stretch. If *stoid
were the root, mightn't "stolid" arise from it? THAT's possible, but
to tie it to Greek seems unlikely, considering the differences between
the two in the Indo-European continuum (that is, they share
comparitively few words save for general ones arising from PIE).
Hwever, if other languages uphold *kstid-, it could be so.