Re[4]: [tied] Re: On the ordering of some PIE rules

At 4:37:11 PM on Sunday, April 20, 2008, fournet.arnaud
wrote:

> From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>

>> At 3:54:21 PM on Sunday, April 20, 2008, fournet.arnaud
>> wrote:

>> [...]

>>> Pokorny 67 arkw "arc, flèche"
>>> Latin arcus "arc"
>>> Germanique *arxwo: "flèche"
>>> Grec ardis "flèche"
>>> The Greek word does not have the -kw / q suffix.

>> And does not belong to Pokorny's *arqu-. Beekes suggests
>> *h2erd- 'point', making it cognate with OIr <aird> 'point,
>> extremity, direction' < PCelt. *ardi-. ON <erta> 'to taunt'
>> < *artjan could go here as well.

> I'll be happy with putting together words that mean
> "arrow", I won't have your "taunt, direction, arrow"
> salad.

Then you'd better omit Gk. <árdis> 'the point of anything;
an arrowhead; a sting'!

Brian