Re: Latin -idus as from dH- too

My point is that word first meant "female" --i.e. a
grown daughter or a daughter who would be married and
nurse her children

--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rick McCallister
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 7:23 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: Re: [tied] Latin -idus as from dH-
> too
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> because the word basically mean "female" --i.e. "one
> who gives suck"
> I think Watkins explains that --and doesn't female
> come from the same root?
> Now that we have fathers and daughters --what is the
> meaning of the root of brother?
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> (Young) daughters precisely are not women
> and even less child-bearing mothers.
> so your explanation falls outside the target.
>
> Brother *bhreH2-ter looks like
> born child : bh_r + H2_t + er
> Maybe just a coincidence.
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> Arnaud
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