Re: [tied] A loanword

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...>
wrote:

> Akin to Armenian harc^ "concubine", Old Irish airech "idem",

Avestan pairika "prostitute, witch" ?

>
> tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> escreveu:
> Saul Levin:
> Semitic and Indo-European: The principal Etymologies
> mentions an IE loan in Hebrew: 'pi(y)l´eGes^' "concubine".
> Philistine (< Pelasgian) ?
>

I wasn't aware of those words. The question is whether they are
compatible with the way Levin analysed it: preposition/preverb *pi-
(cf Hittite) or *bhi, + the verbal stem *legh- "lie" (found in all
IE except IndoAryan, plus in Kartvelian), in other words "lying
with" (sby.). Cf. German Beischlaf "coitus". A loan IE > Semitic >
IE ?



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