From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 57740
Date: 2008-04-20
> From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...>An obvious difficulty is that it first shows up in the 16th
>> --- 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?
> That was written a little too fast for clarity.
> I propose that English 'dug' is the inherited reflex of
> *dheugh-; our good fortune is that it shows the required
> meaning.