Re: [tied] PIE suffix *-ro - 'similar-with'

On 1/3/06, alexandru_mg3 <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:
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> alexandru_mg3 wrote:
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Example 2: *(s)k'h2(e)mb- 'to bend' *(s)k'h2(e)mb-o *(s)k'h2(e)mb-ro
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For a PAlb Example: Alb thembër < PAlb *tsambra /cambra/ 'heel' < (s)
k^h2(e)mb-ro from PIE root *(s)k'h2emb-o- 'to bend' => see Greek
skambos 'bent, crooked' < *sk'h2(e)mb-o

*(s)k'h2(e)mb-ro "heel" = is define as "similar-with a *(s)k'h2emb-o-
similar-with 'a bent thing' (the result of a 'to bend' action)"

So Alb. 'heel' => "a kind of bent thing"

Conclusions:
Piotr, a 'heel' is 'bent' but not any 'bent thing' is 'a heel' =>
so "similar-with" is the only possible relation here.
(and I don't see any 'new intensity' of the 'bent-mark' in
Albanian 'heel', Patrick)

Marius
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As far as I know, *-ro is adjectival suffix: *H2reudh-ro > Gr. erythros 'red', Alb. <i blerë> 'green, verdant' from *bloid-ro (cf. Sl. bled 'pale').

 

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