Re: [tied] Re: morsha

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 49855
Date: 2007-09-07

Rick McCallister pisze:

> a wild guess would be a- "not" dhghV "land" --which at
> least makes a nice folk etymology

But Gk./Skt. a- comes from *n.- (= reduced *ne), and the stem of the
'earth' word has a final *m. Neither nasal is visible in *d(H)g^Huh1-.

Piotr