Re: [tied] Re: Another story

From: glen gordon
Message: 39728
Date: 2005-08-24

Getting into the translation biz:
> "So this is the one with whom I am to do business!
> A savage [non-PIEan, enemy, something based on
> host/Lat hostus]?

"Savage"? That's so post-agricultural. How about
translating it as *wlkWos "wolf". That seems to be
associated oftentimes with criminality,
shape-shifting,
not being on the up-and-up, yadayada. I wouldn't
use *gHosti- because that could potentially mean
a foreign guest or even an in-law, no? Any others
have input on that? Perhaps also *kWrmi-?


> This is an insult to my abilities of negitiation!"

Oy veh. "Negotiation"? Can you settle for *wosno-?


= gLeN


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