'Dug' from PIE? (was: Rg Veda Older than Sanskrit)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

> Piotr is, of course, correct that the word cannot be derived from

*dheugh-;

> it is, in fact, derived from *dheug(h)-, which does not appear in

Pokorny

> although we are fortunate to have an English cognate: 'dug', meaning

'animal

> teat'.

What series of loans do you propose for English _dug_? It can't be
inherited from *dHeug. Alternatively, what mechanism do you propose
for getting it from *dHeugH?

Richard.