Re: On the ordering of some PIE rules

--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> This discussion is rapidly straying off-topic for
> Cybalist. -BMS
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> >
> >Ernout-Meillet:
> >'sagitta, -ae f. (i):
> >1° flèche;
> >2° objet en forme de flèche:
> >pointe d'une branche (cf. Isid., Or.17,5,7);
> >lancette; sagittaire (Plante); la Flèche
> (constellation).-
> >Ancien (Pl., Naev.), usuel. M.L. 7508.
> >Sans doute mot d'emprunt à une langue non
> indo-européenne; l'arc et la
> >flèche ne sont pas des armes nationales à Rome.
> La finale -itta paraît
> >étrusque; Plaute scande sagita, cf. Havet, Man.
> crit. verb. § 1142,
> >Lindsay, Early Lat. Verse, p.115.'
> >Torsten
> ==========
>
> I believe there are two roots :
> *zar and *zaG-
>
> *zaG seems to be of Caucasian origin,
> since *zaG has three meanings there :
> 1. Reed ; 2. arrow ; 3. hedgehog
> Arnaud

. . .
Perhaps from some garbled version of *skeud "to shoot
arrows"?
see Saka, Scythian, etc.


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