Re: [tied] Re: The name of the name

On 2007-02-17 02:13, Sean Whalen wrote:

> --- Sean Whalen <stlatos@...> wrote:
>
>> --- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>>
>>> see Joshua Katz's paper from the 17th
>>> Annual UCLA IE
>>> Conference. Katz has some beautiful examples
>>> including *nah2-ont-
>>> 'swimming' > la(h)hanza(n)- 'duck'.
>> It looks to me more like a case of *xán-x-tí:x >
>
> Or did you mean he claims all IE words for 'duck'
> are derived from 'swim'?

If I remember correctly, he derives the Hittite word from 'swim' and
assumes contamination between *hanh2t- and *(s)nah2- in Greek.

Piotr