Re: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Re: Limitations of the compar

If the PIE's had wanted to characterize 'gold' as the 'piece smelted', they
could have used *t(h)aHw-.

Instead, they used *Hawes-, 'dawn(-colored thing)' and *g^hel-dh-,
'shiny-nugget'.

The Egyptians called it the 'melt-place=kiln' -> 'fiercely desired' but used
a different root: n(w)b (PIE *leubh-).

Patrick

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You may believe if you choose that xrusos comes from Hebrew Harûz but I
prefer to believe that it is a unique derivation from PIE *ghre:u-(**s-).
Why would the Greeks need to borrow a word for 'gold'?

Do you have access to the argumentation supporting it as a loan?

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According to a friend of mine, who is an archeologist,
no metal can be very ancient,
including gold.
So it's not impossible that most of these words are loanwords
including my *H_H_w-s.
especially in view of Arabic dhahb < *dahb.
H2 out of *d is not possible.
It requires an already evolved form
*dahb
then
*dhahb
then
*zahb
loanword
HaHw-

Arnaud