Re: [tied] Re: On the ordering of some PIE rules

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 47169
Date: 2007-01-29

On 2007-01-29 17:10, tgpedersen wrote:

> True. Kuhn has an alternative: PIE *gWm.-tó -> Celtic *bato (loan)->
> PGermanic *paTa-.

PIE *m. becomes Celtic *an, not *a. Celtic *bato- might reflect
*gW&2-tó- (from the synonymous root *gWah2-), but as far as I know the
meaning of *bato- (whatever its further etymology) is 'death', not 'path'.

Piotr