From: tgpedersen
Message: 51056
Date: 2007-12-31
> > Hence from k-m?Oops, forgot
> > Arabic x-m-s (x = velar unvoiced spirant)
> > Uralic kom-t, kum-en, hand, five, ten
> > PIE pen-kwe : entire hand = five
> > And as usual !!
> > Germanic loanword from an Asiatic language : komt > hand
> > And *hant-i being a "root-noun" does not protect it from being a
> > loanword.
>
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/21834
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/21865
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/46175
> http://tinyurl.com/2c4yse
> Udolph denies a relation of the German placename second element
> -hude, Engl. -hythe, "wood storage place, storage at a waterway,
> ferry berth" to the appellatives (non-placenames)
> AS hunt, huntian, Goth. fra-hinþan "hunt, catch",
> but accepts
> NLG hude, hüde "hiding place"
> Gr. kanthós "corner of the eye", kontós "nail",
> Welsh cethr "point, nail",
> OHG hantego, handego "sharp, pointed",
> Proto-Slav. *ko,t- >
> Russ. kut "the end of a river",
> Ukr. kut "narrow, angular bay"
> Pol. ka,t "remains of old river bend"
> In the sense "house" common in Slavic, in SSlavic in the sense
> "house"
>
> cf. unshifted NHG Kante "edge, esp. of water"
> assuming a sense "hidden" also unshifted
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/46174
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/46179
>
> and Grimm-shifted German Hode "testicle"?