From: Rick McCallister
Message: 55924
Date: 2008-03-25
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Piotr Gasiorowski
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> On 2008-03-25 03:05, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:
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> > Besides Hitt. sak(u)wa- "eye" (< PA *sogWo- < PIE
> *sókWo-)
> > [with irregular t- in the Luwian branch], there's
> also Hitt.
> > suwais "bird", possibly connected to <avis> etc.
>
> If <suwais> is related to <avis> (I have some new
> ideas concerning its
> etymology, but I'm still working on it and wouldn't
> like to divulge the
> details prematurely), the loss of *h2 is of course
> regular between an
> s-mobile and a consonant. Hitt. sakuwa is, in my
> opinion, best explained
> as a a thematic deverbal noun from *sekW- 'follow,
> join, accompany'
> (with secondary meanings like 'see'). Any original
> connection with
> *h3okW- is IMO doubtful despite the similarity of
> both roots and their
> semantic convergence.
>
> Piotr
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> There is the big grab-everything root :
> - sekw to say
> - sekw to follow
> - sekw to see
>
> I have no opinion about "to say"
> which may be the only one
> which really is *s_kw
>
> to follow is in my opinion
> s plus -kw "with"
> Basically this "verb" is just
> a nominal syntagm
> Noun1 s-kw + noun2 (in locative)
> Noun1 is with noun2
> this "verb" just does not exist.
>
> S-H1_kw is another third thing.
> Maybe or probably.
>
> Arnaud
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