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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "C. Darwin Goranson"
<cdog_squirrel@...> wrote:
>
> We all know the phrase *tetk^on (weaver/maker) and *tek^- (to make).
> Well, I read thet the Germanic original form of Modern German "Dachs"
> is actually related to a Hittite word that seems to mean badger. The
> two would originate in a for *tok^sos.
> Now, the striking similarity of this to an o-grade extention of *tek^-
> leads me suspect something. Is this equation (in the title) plausible?
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Watkins in AHD:
ENTRY: teks-
DEFINITION: To weave; also to fabricate, especially with an ax; also
to make wicker or wattle fabric for (mud-covered) house walls. Oldest
form *tes-, becoming *teks- in centum languages.
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5a. dachshund, from Old High German dahs, badger; b. dassie, from
Middle Dutch das, badger. Both a and b from Germanic *thahsuz, badger,
possibly from this root ("the animal that builds," referring to its
burrowing skill) but more likely borrowed from the same
pre-Indo-European source as the Celtic totemic name *Tazgo- (as in
Gaulish Tazgo-, Gaelic Tadhg), originally "badger." (Pokorny te- 1058.)