Re: Not "catching the wind " , or, what ARE we discussing?

On 2008-04-15 22:53, stlatos wrote:

> What about comparison with Germanic? What do you believe gave hund
> and mund?

*k^wn.tó-, perhaps. The *-t- may have belonged to the original stem,
_if_ the 'dog' word was a formation related to *-nt- participles (like
*h1dont-), but the evidence for that is scanty.

> Do you have any evidence for *kYwn,- instead of *kYuwn,-?

Gmc. *xunða- could derive from either (or from *k^untó-, for that
matter). But we have Ved. s'vabHis (not +s'umbHis) < *k^wn.-bHis.

Piotr