From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 55721
Date: 2008-03-22
----- Original Message -----
From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 4:22 PM
Subject: 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
***
I did not say I thought *(s)teu-p- was right.
Actually, I think the earliest PIE form should have been *(s)t(h)a:up(h)-.
For your range of meanings above, I would expect *(s)toup- -> *(s)teup-.
Patrick