Re: dhuga:ter ('LARYNGEALS')

On 2008-03-24 21:17, fournet.arnaud wrote:

> I have never been really convinced
> by the connection between
> human being and ground,
> the one that is the ground or
> the one that carries the ground ?
> There is a hitch in this explanation.

If the IE deities were mostly sky-dwellers (*deiwo-), that made us
"earthlings". One frequent meaning of the Hoffmann suffix is 'charged
with, responsible for'.

Piotr