Re: PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

Basque (h)auts "hot coals" possible loanword?
coincidence? The word was borrowed into Spanish as
ascuas

--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
> > >> There is a Finnish <ahku> that I've seen
> glossed as
> > >> 'Asche' and as 'ash ball' that looks like a
> borrowing of
> > >> PGmc. *asko:n, and an <ahjo> 'forge' from PGmc.
> *asjo:n
> > >> 'forge' (ON <esja> 'Schieferart, Seifenstein
> zum
> > >> Schmieden benutzt'), both from *h2as- 'to burn,
> to glow'.

. . .

> > > Maybe *kaw "burn" could be a better source
> > > that *H2as-
> >
> > I presume that this is Watkins' *ka:u-/*ka:w- <
> *kah2u-.
> >
> > > *kaw-s-k- => kask-
> > > Cf. Greek kau-s-tos
> >

. . .

>
>

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