Re: Rayim

Some of the literature about the history of Spanish
does
res as "property" settles the issue and also shows it
as a patallel to other expression such pecu-niary,
Basque abere, etc.

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> --- 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
>
>
>
>

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