Re: Rayim

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 54769
Date: 2008-03-06

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

> Ah hah! Many books I've seen list Latin res as
> "unknown".

LIV (2001) and Meier-Brügger (Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft,
2002) don't. Nor does Pokorny, nor does Watkins in the American
Heritage Dictionary online:

http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE425.html

Pokorny has *re:(i)-, but as argued by Szemerényi (more than half a
century ago) and others, the *-i- is a suffix, not part of the root.

Piotr