Re: Res: [tied] Etymology of Rome

From: Sean Whalen
Message: 47760
Date: 2007-03-09

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

> Possibly connected with Gk. ere:mos 'lonely,
> desolate' (with old /e:/,
> thus apparently *h1réh1-mo- with *h1 rather than
> *h2),

Isn't this more likely from *é:remos > ére:mos (as
e:réma:) from a reduplicated form of *xYrèm?
Something like 'very quiet / always quiet > solitary'?






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