Fw: Re: [tied] hoopoe

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

>
> Torsten,
>
> just to let you know, I am aware of Pokorny's *(s)teu-p-, 'stump'. and
> perhaps we are dealing with a semantically related unattested meaning
> of 'tuft' for it?

And the whole deaf, dumb (Dutch stom "stupid", German stumm "mute"),
"having stuffed ears/throat" shtick,
plus stick, stuck, Basque zunga "headbutt", etc.
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Adm.html
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/tw.html


Torsten