Re: [tied] IE "fist" (Germanic+Slavic+Baltic?)

From: Sean Whalen
Message: 47442
Date: 2007-02-14

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> Those who connect Slavic *pINstI with OE fy:st, OHG
> fu:st usually
> reconstruct the prototype as *pn.kW-sti-, from
> *penkWe (whatever the
> analysis of the suffix).

I'd say *pentkWe.

p(e)n 'five'

p(e)n+t 'all five'

p(e)nt+kWe 'and five' (cont. from counting)

p(e)ntkW+ú+ 'whole, all (five)'

p(e)ntkW+tí+s 'whole hand, fist'

>

Germanic
*pen.kWú+ > *pér.kWu+ > *firxWu+z 'world'

Celtic
*penkWú+s > *kWoNWkWú+z. > cóicer 'five'

Italic
*pn,kWtú+s > *kWn,kWtú+s > *kWoNWkWtu+s

Anatolian
*pn,tkWú+ > *paNkWú+s

>

*p(e)ntkWtí+s > *p(e)nkWttí+s

Slavic
*penkWstí+s > *peNstI+

Baltic
*pn,kWstí+s > *puNWkWsti+ > *kWumpsti+

Germanic
*pn,kWstí+s > *puNWkWsti+z > *funsti+z






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