Re: [tied] Etymology of PIE *ph2ter

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

>
> This root is, however, used for 'father' in, possibly, for example,

Egyptian

> j(t)f, 'father' (but possibly this corresponds rather to PIE

*H2ewo-s as

> 'progenitor'); and probably (almost certainly) in *dMs-peH3-ti-s, 'lord
> (protector)'.

Well if we're going to look at other languages families (which given
the nature of this list we probably shouldn't, unless we're talking
borrowings) then in support of my PPIE *?ap I offer Semitic *?ab which
also means father. PPIE may have borrowed *?ab (with word final
fortition) then tacked on the familial suffix **h2tir to give *pater.