Re: [tied] Latin du:rus

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 44248
Date: 2006-04-12

On 2006-04-12 08:47, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> Forget it. Skt. dur- in the forms you quoted is just a sandhi
> realisation of <dus-> 'ill-, mis-'...

Sorry, I mean <dus.->. A final postvocalic /s./ becomes /r/ before a
voiced consonant or a vowel, cf. Skt. dur-manas- 'perversity of mind':
Gk. dus-mene:s 'hostile' ('ill-minded').

Piotr