>To eat *H1ed :
>Basque Hel Hal
Which specific Basque word(s) are you referring to?
"To eat" in Basque is jan, from *e-an(-i), verbal root *an.
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Hel "to bite".
It's not difficult to find it in the dictionary.
A.
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>PIE *r is Basque z and Etruscan s :
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>House : gher
>Etruscan casa
>Basque etche < ekze < keze
Basque etxe is a borrowing from Celtic *tegi "house" (PIE
*tek-). Modern Basque has the suffix -tegi, -egi "house,
place" (e.g. ardotegi < ardano + tegi "wine-house", harregi
< harri + tegi "stony place"). As an independent word, we
would expect *tegi > *egi, the diminutive of wich is *teg-xe
> etxe.
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I suppose you imply that
Etruscan too is a Celtic loanword
tegi > tki Plus diminutive -sa
hence tki-sa > casa
(Plus a couple of impossible
phonetic manipulations
on top of the fancy)
tegi-xe > etxe !!!!!
(I will refrain from
expressing what I think)
It's possible that *tegi became
borrowed into Basque.
But it's still does not explain
etxe from metathetic heze .
Fusing into one morpheme
- borrowed *tegi
- inherited derivative -gi
is below comments.
A
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