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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-
language@...> wrote:
>
> Marius:
>
> *pa[:]-tér, 'feeder'
> *má:-ter, 'nurser'
>
> Patrick
>
Yes, the meanings seems obvious from a logical point of view...but
what are the PIE roots implied here? I mean, for 'nurser' and
for 'feeder'?
On my side I have indicated *peh2(i) - to guard, to protect' (that I
have assumed that evolved in 'some' of its derived forms as *peh2-i-
) in possible relation with a (supposed) weak-form: *ph2- (-ter)
Marius