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Concerning the Greek word "wan-aks",
It looks like Chinese wang "emperor"
and Sumerian EN "king".
WEN does not exist so EN may be in fact [wen] <
*wan.
So maybe we have to posit a "asiatic" root *wan
"king"
This entails that Greece may have received a
greater influence
from Mesopotamia than usually
accepted.
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I disagree with Bask zango "leg" could be from
*skank
and have any relationship with Germanic *skank-
/skink
I don't think (proto)-Bask could (ever) have that
kind of initial cluster.
clusters are internal in Bask, often thru
metatheses.
A conspicuous feature of Bask, also visible in
Etruscan,
is that PIE *l and *r are reflected as [s] written
-z- in Bask.
Example :
Lip < *lap? = Bask ezp-ain <
*zap-in
hence zango is in fact the same as leg and Greek
laks.
Etruscan has the same feature :
Kor "young man" :
Bask giz-on
ETruscan hus
Bask initial -g- should in fact be
hoz-
so that this word seems a compound gi- + hoz-on
> giz-on
gher "house, enclose place"
Bask etche < ehza < haz
ETruscan casa
Reg "straight branch"
Etruscan sag-itta.
Usually Bask and Etruscan display the same mutation
:
unvoiced > spirant k > h
voiced > often unchanged
voiced aspirated > often unvoiced
glottalized > unvoiced
Bask -l- reflect PIE -d- and -r- reflects
-t?-
that has this consequence that in fact eat and
tooth are not the same root :
tooth hor-tz < H1ot?
eat (or bite) hel/hal < H1ad
Bask h is from either H1 or k.
I class Bask and Etruscan in the same genetic group
"Paleo-European".
Etruscan is neither an imported language nor a part
of Indo-European.
Bask is usually a comparative
nightmare
but a couple of things are clear.
There are no Bask or Etruscan enigmas.