Re: Ie. *laywos/leh2iwos (was: ka and k^a)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> >And another thing - it's interesting that another IE word

for 'left',

> >*skaywós also has *ay.
>
> That could have /a/ due to proximity to /k/, or due to
> etymological (in my view nasalized) /a/. The word itelf is
> curiousy absent from Pokorny, but we have Grk. skaiós, Lat.
> scaevus, and with different extensions Lith. kaire:~, Irish
> ciot-, Gmc. *skaib-. The root *(s)kam(P)- (also *skem(P)-)
> "crooked" has more satem reflexes, also pointing to *k, but
> also pointing to a nasal.
>
> The full vowel again seems to favour etymological /a/ here,
> but there's no telling how the two words *skaiwós and
> *laiwós may have influenced each other. Maybe it was
> *skáibhos (= G. schief, Du. scheef) > *skaiwós in
> Latin/Greek under the influence of *laiwós, maybe the
> analogy acted in the opposite direction.
>

/ai/ has been observed in words denoting "deformity", "handicap".
To add to the words containing a /k/ mentioned above could also be
added "caecus".
Could there be an analogy at work also for this word?

(I am here only quoting the tradition of regarding this as an
abnormity and asking
beforehand all lefthanded people on the list not to be offended.
Myself of the
"dextrous" majority have no prejudice whatsoever against the
minority.
This said not to unnecessarily anger people who seem to have had a
bad weekend. Is it the low pressure of
Rita that has affected people on the North American continent?
Here in Scandinavia we have had a wonderful latesummer Sunday).

Lars