Re: gast

On 2008-04-25 19:14, jouppe wrote:

> One more remark: If Paleo-Germanic *kansa: would be a borrowing from
> Proto Finnic-Saami *kansa the latter would still be in need of an
> etymology, because a cluster *-ns- is very unlikely to have occured
> in Proto-Uralic and I see no morpheme boundary here either.
> So where would we have an older IE-original for this word?

I like Herman Seldeslacht's etymological proposal: *xanso: < *kóN-(s)sa:
< *kóm-dH(h1)tah2, the collective of a participial derivative of *kom- +
*dHeh1- 'put together, gather'. It makes sense and explains the accent.

Piotr