Re: [tied] Some new etymologies

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<akonushevci@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Is *peisk- from a root supposedly meaning "spotted" as some have

it

> with -sk marking it as an adjective? Something like *peik-sk-
> > See Spanish peca "freckle", Latin pecatus "sin",
> originally "stained' if I remember correctly.
> ************
> The hell knows. As Pokorny, as well as Watkins give it as separate
> root *peisk- 'fish' with zero-grade form *pisk-. Curiously, *peik-

,

> oldest form *peik'- with palatal in some branches (cf. Slavic
> pisati 'to write'), as well in Albanian has the meaning "spoted,
> freckle', but with pure velar. In case you suppose, cluster of

three

> consonants is expected to be reduced in cluster of two ones.
>
> Regards,
> Konushevci

Phonetically speaking, as root *peig'- `cut, mark', with variant
*peik'-, in centum languages *peik-, is identical with *meig'-, with
variant *meik'-, in centum languages *meik-, that getting the
suffix –sk have yielded in Latin mixere `to mix', Alb. <mih> `to
dig' (cf. also rrë-mih `excavete'), but <mushk(ë)> `mule;
literally `mixed animal' etc.