Re: Basque, Etruscan and Common Sound Changes (was: Finnish KASKA)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
>
> >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.

It seem likely to me that the IE word originally meant "to bite" based
on the derived stem, H1dont, "tooth."