Re: [tied] taurus, Stier and s movable

I understood <<Thorn>> as the sound of <T> , i.e. like
<th> in <thorn>
--- alexandru_mg3 <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jens Elmegård
> Rasmussen <elme@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > So, is the s- of *steu-ro- movible? Is it linked
> to
> > > Latin taurus, etc.?
> > > Is it really *s-teu-ro?
> >
> > My guess is that the word is Semitic, and that
> Sem. Tawr- (with T
> > denoting "thorn") was integrated into IE as
> *(s)tew-ro-, where both s-
> > movable variants were equally close to the
> original.
> >
> > Jens
> >
>
> If so, PIE *-ro- would have the same meaning as the
> English -ny-
> s-teu-ro- <-> thorn-ny?
>
> Marius
>
>
>
>
>

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