Re: Other IE language with /w/

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...>

wrote:

> >
> > So I tried to think of an IE word with initial /w/ that might
> > be preserved in Kurdish, and so I asked her what the Kurdish
> > word for "water" is. She replied with a word that sounded
> > exactly the same as North American English "water", ...
>
> Interesting, considering that the Old Iranian word for "water"
> was a reflex of a different I.-E. root -- Pokorny's a:>p-2.
> Anyone have another source to make sure the lady wasn't messing
> with more than Andrew's hair?

At http://www.namonet.com/dictionary.asp are listed 'awdan',
and 'awdêr', with no explanation given on the difference,
for the _verb_ 'to water', alongside the words 'aw' and 'av'
for the noun 'water', which are clearly based on *a:p-.

I wonder if the verb 'awdêr' isn't what Andrew heard.

David