Re: PIE suffix *-ro - 'similar-with' => *kseud- & *ksud-ró

From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 42845
Date: 2006-01-08

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3"
<alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
>
> 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:
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > a. "X-ro" = "Y" <=>
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > b. " 'the-nature-of(X) IS-DIFFERENT-FROM the-nature-of(Y)"
> > and
> > c. "Y is-ressembling/it-looks-like X"
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> The PIE Meaning of *ksud-ró:
> --------------------------------
> *ksud-ró 'as-small-as a pulverised object'
>

Based on the below meanings of the Skt ks.udrá:
- a base or despicable woman
- a maimed or crippled woman
- a whore, harlot
- a dancing girl
- a quarrelsome woman

Is better that I maintain the initial generality :)

The PIE Meaning of *ksud-ró:
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*ksud-ró 'similar-with a crushed,pulverised object'


Marius