[tied] Re: Wanak

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2007-04-26 04:56, Brian M. Scott wrote:
>
> > At 2:01:00 PM on Tuesday, April 24, 2007, Anders R.
> > Joergensen wrote:
>
> >> I haven't seen anything really convincing concerning the
> >> etymology of this Celtic *aneg-.
> >
> > Do you know why Matasovic derives it from *h1egH- (Latin
> > <egeo:> 'I lack', ON <ekla> 'a dearth')?
>
> Off the top of my noggin, witout checking Ranko's references: perhaps
> *n.- + *h1egH- 'not suffer the lack of' --> 'keep, protect'.
>
> Piotr
>

Yes, this is the derivation suggested by Schumacher (Die keltischen
Primärverben, IBS 2000, p. 198-200).

As he himself makes clear, the compound *an-eg- must have originated in
the noun *an-ex-tlo- and from there spread to the verb *an-eg-e/o-,
since *n.- is pure nominal.

Anders