I, see, face, etc. [was: dhuga:ter ('LARYNGEALS')]

Patrick Ryan pisze:

> For whatever interest it may have, I believe *Ha(:)nti- can be analyzed as
>
> *Ha, 'forehead' + -*n, 'thing' = 'forehead'
> + -*to = 'front'; + -y = 'thing pertaining to the front' = 'face'

Oops, I actually intended to write *h2ant- (preserved in Hittite as a
root noun); *h2anti is its locative, meaning 'in front' --> 'opposite,
against, before', etc.

By the way, the roots */h2ent-/ and */h3ekW-/ meet in Latin anti:quus <
*h2anti-h3kW-o-s 'appearing before' --> 'former, ancient'.

Piotr