Toes (was: *kW- "?")

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 40003
Date: 2005-09-15

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "etherman23" <etherman23@...> wrote:

> PIE also apparently lacked a word for toe. Does this mean the
> Indo-Europeans had no toes?

Maybe, like the Thais, they just had digits - Latin _digitus_, Common
Germanic *taix(w)o:n 'toe', clearly from *deik^ 'show, point'. The
*g^ variant may be PIE - cf. English 'token', 'teach' etc.

Richard.