Re: Live squirrel

From: tgpedersen
Message: 45351
Date: 2006-07-14

> It seems to me PIE *weh1wer- must be somehow related to PIE *gWi-wo-
> "alive" or *gWi-gWo- as I believe Piotr wrote it (to show it was
> related to PIE *gWo-gW- "cow". If that is so, then *weh1wer- is
> itself a substrate term, which means either that there are _two_ IE
> substrate layers in Danish (one each for 'væver' and 'egern'), or
> that the "alive" root occurred in a non-IE substrate in Germanic,
> which means it wasn't native in PIE.


On the "cow" trail:

Lat. vacca "cow"
(/a/, gemination: Mot populaire (Ernout-Meillet), thus old loan?)
OHG wancho:n "walk; stray"

Torsten