Re: [tied] A loanword

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...>
> wrote:
> > Akin to Armenian harc^ "concubine", Old Irish airech "idem",
> Avestan pairika "prostitute, witch" ?
> >
> > tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> escreveu:
> > Saul Levin:
> > Semitic and Indo-European: The principal Etymologies
> > mentions an IE loan in Hebrew: 'pi(y)l´eGes^' "concubine".
> > Philistine (< Pelasgian) ?
> >
>
> I wasn't aware of those words. The question is whether they are
> compatible with the way Levin analysed it: preposition/preverb *pi-
> (cf Hittite) or *bhi, + the verbal stem *legh- "lie" (found in all
> IE except IndoAryan, plus in Kartvelian), in other words "lying
> with" (sby.). Cf. German Beischlaf "coitus". A loan IE > Semitic >
> IE ?

And Latin paelex, pel(l)ex, pelica, Gr. pállax, pallaké:, (all
Ernout-Meillet, who suggests Etruscan intermediary role). Not that the
direction of loan gets any clearer.


Torsten