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

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 38859
Date: 2005-06-22

alexandru_mg3 wrote:

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

These just prove my point. Greek <deksios> comes from *deksiwos, with
loss of the intervocalic digamma. The Germanic forms come from PGmc.
*tehswa- < *dek^swo-, and the Celtic ones from PCelt. *dexswo- <
*dek^swo- (except for the Gaulish theonym Dexsiua, which seems to
reflect the veriant *dek^siwo-). All of them are therefore derivable
from *dek^s(i)wo-, which is precisely the form I started with.

Piotr