Re: Re[2]: [tied] RE: BITUMEN was IS PIE * DERU EXCLUSIVELY INDO-E

Thanx for the correction. *betu > Romance *betulla >
Spanish abedul


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

> At 3:40:23 PM on Sunday, January 27, 2008, Rick
> McCallister
> wrote:
>
> > I've seen postings that bitumen is from Gaulsih
> bitu-
> > "beech" and originally referred to a type of gum
> that came
> > from the sap. And that the present form is via
> Latin.
>
> According to Watkins, Latin <bitumen> is indeed a
> Gaulish
> loanword, from Celtic *betu- 'birch, birch resin';
> OE
> <cwidu>, <c(w)udu> 'what is chewed; cud; mastic gum'
> is
> cognate, as is Skt. <játu-> 'Lack, Gummi'. PIE
> *gWetu-.
>
> Brian
>
>
>

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