From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 42799
Date: 2006-01-07
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From: "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 6:14 PM
Subject: [tied] PIE suffix *-ro - 'similar-with' => *kseud- & *ksud-ró
Piotr wrote:
> *ksud-ró- 'small, broken into small pieces' (Skt. ks.udrá- beside
> ks.un.n.á- < *ksud-nó- 'pulverised') from *kseud- 'crush' (cf.
> Slavic xudU 'meagre' < *ksoud-o-).
<alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
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> a. "X-ro" = "Y" <=>
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> b. " 'the-nature-of(X) IS-DIFFERENT-FROM the-nature-of(Y)"
> and
> c. "Y is-ressembling/it-looks-like X"
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*kseud-/*ksud- 'to crush, to pound, to pulverise'
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Skt. ks.ud-
- 'ks.ódati', to strike against, shake
- ã;. to move, be agitated or shaken
- fut. 'ks.otsyati' to stamp or trample upon : Caus. 'ks.odayati'
(impf. 'áks.odayat'), to shake or agitate by stamping RV. iv, 19, 4
- to crush, pound, pulverise
*ksud-o ; *ksoud-o <<initial meaning: the object resulted from
a 'to crush/to pulverise operation'>>
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Patrick:
I would seriously question whether *kseud- should be analyzed on the basis
of an attributed meaning of 'stamp into small pieces'.
It seems to me that it is obviously a very specialized extension of kes,
'comb'.
And in this regard, kSudrá-, 'dust mote', is suggestive.
It looks to me as if something like 'glean' or 'scratch through laboriously
for left-behind tiny bits' is the underlying meaning.
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