From: tgpedersen
Message: 45312
Date: 2006-07-11
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> > Thinking further about this root, I came to conclusion that its
> > primary form *wa:g- should has yielded also Alb. <vozgë> 'barrel,
> > cask, tun' as an metathetic form of <vogzë> and denominal
> > <vozgon> 'to put in barrel, cask, tun'.
> > In any way we have to deal with the hollow part of body, wood,
> > fiber, that could be filled.
> > Much interesting are idioms <i zë vang> 'to take like pretext,
> > literaly 'to find hollow parts in something' or <i gjej
> > vegzën> 'id.', <i lidh vegzat> 'to tie separated, splited parts'.
> > I wander did here took part adjective <i vëngër> 'cross-eyed'
> > primary meaning 'angry, crazy' (cf. <shikoi vëngër> 'to look<pizda> 'vagina'.
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> > with anger'), for, to my view, I find it related to Slavic
> > <popizditi> 'to get crazy', probably derived from
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> The more I looked at the reflexes of *wag- (Danish vang "field in a
> three-phase rotation scheme", vange "sides (of eg. a ladder), Germ.
> Wange "cheek", and several meaning "curved, crooked" the more
> confused I got. Until I thought of how one made spoked wheels.
> A wheel consists of a hub (nave), some spokes and a rim. And the
> is made up of curved pieces, into which are bored a hole into whichshrunk
> the spoke is inserted, and finally a steel band is heated and
> on, which keeps in place those pieces, the names of which must havebarrel-
> had something to do with *wag-. This is not very dissimilar to
> making. Note the a-, it is therefore a loan into the IE languagesI googled 'trevangsbrug' "agricultural three-phase rotation scheme".
> that arrived latest in Europe (also a- in Latin 'va:gi:na') from a
> language that arrived earlier. That language might have been an IE
> one, if the 'proper' IE root *weg- "transport" is a cognate.
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