Re: Res: [tied] Etymology of Rome

On 2007-03-08 21:25, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> Possibly connected with Gk. ere:mos 'lonely, desolate' (with old /e:/,
> thus apparently *h1réh1-mo- with *h1 rather than *h2), cf. IIr. *HrH-mó-
> 'still, motionless', and Lat. ra:rus < *h1r.H-ró-. How, then, about
> deriving <Ro:ma> from *(h1)roH-máh2 'seclusion' (or 'resting-place', or
> the like), the O-fix derivative of *h1réH-mn.?

This, by the way, would make OInd. ra:ma- ambiguous: *(h1)rom-o- or
*(h1)roH-mo- (if not a merger of both).

Piotr