Re: Fw: [tied] Rayim

And you deserve a ruler.

The words conceptually grouped with 'back/spine/tree' are based on *ra:(H)-;
PIE *re(:)-, 'back(ward)', is based on *rA from *ra.

Patrick

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Patrick Ryan
>
> Lest readers think I am angling for an "A" from the Professor, I do differ
> with one small part of Piotr's comments below: I do not think the IIr
> words
> for 'give' derive from *re:(H)- but rather from a related *re:-, the long
> vowel of which was original rather than occasioned by the former presence
> of
> a 'laryngeal'.
>
> This *re:- means, primarily, 'move downward' = 'fall'.
>
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>
> You deserve E.
>
> ReH1 means "backward".
>
> A.
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