casa

What is the origin of casa?
I thought intervocalic <-s-> always changed to /-r-/
in words native to Latin.
That, at least is the argument used to claim rosa as a
loanword
The consonant structure does seem parallel for
Germanic hus, however


--- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> At 10:56:29 AM on Saturday, March 1, 2008,
> fournet.arnaud
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >>>PIE *r is Basque z and Etruscan s :
>
> >>>House : gher
> >>>Etruscan casa
>
> So far as I know, the Etruscan word is <per(a)>;
> <casa> is
> Latin.
>
> Brian
>
>
>

____________________________________________________________________________________
Be a better friend, newshound, and
know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ