Re[2]: [tied] Alb. djathtë -- Where does the come from? (the s

At 8:56:07 AM on Tuesday, June 21, 2005, alexandru_mg3
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>> alexandru_mg3 wrote:

>>> , I was the first to say (I mean in this discussion)
>>> that we have here a 'simple' *dek^s-)

>> ... which is unattested in IE despite the wide
>> distribution of this word-family.


> Piotr, please find here some attested forms:
> Gk. dexios
> Ir. dess,
> Welsh deheu,
> Goth. taihswa

> url:

> http://www.indoeuropean.nl/cgi-bin/response.cgi?
> root=leiden&morpho=0&basename=\data\ie\frisk&first=1211

Read it again: that very source says that <dess> and
<taihswa> are from *dek^s-wo-, not from unextended *dek^s-.

Brian