Re: [tied] water

On 2006-01-30 10:06, P&G wrote:

>>1. Is there any possibility that "aqua" is related to "akov" - the old
>>Slavic measure for the weight of fluid?
>>2. What about Slavic "okov" (fetter) and "potkov" - pod-okov (horse shoe)
>>and Latin equus, equi (horse)?
>>3. In Sanskit "apas" is "running water" (additional meaning is "sacred
>>act"; Lat "pius") and in Slavic we have the verb "piti" (drink) and "pio si"
>>(2.sing. perfect), "opio se" (3.sing. perfect); could it be related?
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> I had been expecting someone else to answer this.
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> Latin aqua and Latin equus are not connected.
> aqua < *akW- (probably h2ekW-)
> equus < *ek'w- (probably h1ek'w-)
> Note that they have different laryngeals, and one has a single consonant,
> while the other has a consonant cluster.
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> Sanskrit apas is a different root again , *ap- (presumably *h2ep-)

The Slavic word for 'horseshoe' and 'fetter' consist of a prefix plus a
noun based on the Slavic root *ku-/*kov- 'to hammer, to strike' (<
*kauH-), cognate to Germanic *xawwan- (Eng. hew). No relationship,
however remote, to the 'horse' or 'water' words, let alone both, is
possible. Lat. pius goes back to *puh2-jo-, from the root *peuh2-
'purify, cleanse'.

Piotr