[tied] Re: *-tro-/*-tlo-

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

>
> On 2007-06-22 21:45, stlatos wrote:

> > It seems to me that bothros shows oh3tr > otHr, but maybe you have a
> > different derivation.
>
> Indeed, the variant <bótHu:nos> suggests a different morphological
> division, with indivisible <botH-> as the root and no *-t(H)ro- suffix.

Yes, I now think the overlap in meaning with *berathron is just a
coincidence. It must actually be from *gWm,dh+ and show a shift in
meaning like 'deep > concave (pit) > hole, hollow, etc.'.