Re: 7-minute ITCH

It is not a very well attested word but it made it past Pokorny's criteria
on p. 343.

Actually, your suggestion seems to me to be very likely.

Pokorny complains about Scottish Gaelic <eite> that the /t/should have been
lenited unless it derived from /tt/.

Could the reduplication seen in PToch. *a:tiya: be responsible?

My guess is yes.

But only partial reduplication: *Ha(:)toto-?

Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] 7-minute ITCH


> On 2008-02-05 20:27, Patrick Ryan wrote:
>
> > Egyptian jt is cognate with PIE *H(e)t[(e)n]-, 'kernel, grain'.
>
> Is there such a word? I'm only aware of what seem to be derivatives of
> *h2ád- 'dry out', as in Lat. ador 'spelt', Goth. atisk 'grain field',
> Arm. hat 'grain'. There may also have existed some kind of reduplicated
> formation like *h2a-h2d-i- (PToch. *a:tiya:).
>
> Piotr
>
>