From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 55479
Date: 2008-03-18
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From: Brian M. Scott
To: fournet.arnaud
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 5:46 PM
Subject: Re[3]: [tied] Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *gWiH3w-
At 12:28:48 PM on Tuesday, March 18, 2008, fournet.arnaud
wrote:
> From: Piotr Gasiorowski
>> Well, neither are sheep, yet there are IE words for
>> 'ewe', 'ram', 'lamb' and 'wool'.
> I'd be grateful to learn about these PIE words !?
Two, at least, seem fairly straightforward:
*h2egWnos 'lamb', with reflexes in Latin, Greek, Slavic,
Celtic, and Germanic.
Brian
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If we read Meillet Et. Dict. Latin p 23,
Germanic cannot be from *H2egwnos
and must be from *H2eghwnos
Especially OE eanian.
Now if we accept *H2aghwnos
then we have a problem with Greek amnos.
Next point is Slavic has a long รข
in agne/agnici,
How do you account for this long vowel ?
Celtic forms have #o as initial not #a-
How do you explain or account for all this ?
What is a fairly straightforward cognate ?
Arnaud
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