Re[4]: [tied] Truth, Hittite

At 4:06:06 PM on Tuesday, November 20, 2007, Rick
McCallister wrote:

> --- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> At 2:10:01 PM on Tuesday, November 20, 2007, Rick
>> McCallister wrote:

[...]

>>> Interesting word for truth, see a "not" + lethe "forget"
>>> + ia which seems to function as a marker for abstract
>>> qualities and collectivitites but someone else will have
>>> to take it back to IE for you

>> Watkins derives <Lethe> from *leh2dH- 'to be hidden'; the
>> prefix is of course from *n.-.

> Which seems very much on the mark. What are other cognates
> of lethe in other IE languages?

At least Latin <late:re> 'to lie hidden'; I haven't time to
look further at the moment.

> And the Greek -ia ending?

According to Watkins, from PIE *-ia:-, a compound suffix
whose second element is PIE *-eh2, forming abstract and
collective nouns.

Brian