[tied] Re: Another story

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, glen gordon <glengordon01@...> wrote:

>
> 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-?

What I meant to get across is that he thinks of the Proto-Finno-Ugrian
as a lesser, as less advanced, less honourable, so I guess that *kWrmi
would connote about that idea.

> > This is an insult to my abilities of negitiation!"
>
> Oy veh. "Negotiation"? Can you settle for *wosno-?

Er, I know that *wos is you (plural), but what does the *-no- part
attach to the meaning? What does *wosno mean? The Pokorny dictionary
doesn't seem to have it.