Re: Khaos and Eros

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "altamix" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
> <akonushevci@> wrote:
>
> > Watkins derives Greek <ero:s> from *H1erH2- 'to separate, adjoin'
> > as well as verb <erasthai> 'to love' with other derivative
> > erasmios 'lovely, pleasant', that have yielded Latin Erasmus. As
> > cognate he takes Old Hittite arhaš 'border', Old Irish

or 'border'

> > and Lithuanian irti 'to be dissolved' (separated): Latin
> > rarus 'having interval between' (AHD, 2. erH -24).
>
> the cognates seem not so convincing to me.
>
> >
> > chaos is derived from *g'he:u- 'to yawn, gape' from variant form
> > *g'hau- > khaos 'empty space, chasm'. As cognate he give Old
> > English *go:ma 'jaw, palate'. Compare also *g'ha:i-.
> >
> > Konushevci
>
>
> I see here as cognate Rum. "hãu"= chasm; abyss
> if they are cognates, then we have the proof the initial "g'" was
> lost not only in Latin....
>
> Alex
>

The initial g' is never lost in Romanian-Subtratum, Proto-Albanian
or Dacian see (d)zarã (dhallë) etc...

Marius