Re: Li

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

We have already reached the conclusion that PIE was long gone
when gold became something interesting.
And that the reason why
western PIE has a loanword *zahb > *ahw-s
central PIE invented a word out of *ghel.
Arnaud
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Instead, they used *Hawes-, 'dawn(-colored thing)' and *g^hel-dh-,
'shiny-nugget'.
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Dawn is another word :
H2_w here is Arabic s?ab-aH "morning".
Arnaud
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