From: stlatos
Message: 59003
Date: 2008-06-03
>*sitikos 'thirsty' would come from sitis 'thirst' not from 'foot' or
> At 11:38:59 AM on Tuesday, June 3, 2008, stlatos wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> > <BMScott@> wrote:
>
> >> *TK > KK is regular in
> >> Latin. Weiss gives as examples
>
> >> *ad-gradior 'approach' > aggredior
> >> *ad-causa:- 'charge' > accu:sa:re
> >> *ped-ka:- 'sin' > pecca:re,
>
> > I'd say that an original noun/adj. formed that verb. If
> > so, *pediko- was the original form, like *sitikos
> > 'thirsty' > siccus 'dry', with (perhaps not regular)
> > middle V>0 between two consonants. If it was regular, the
> > type of C would have counted.
>
> I accept the usual derivation of <siccus> from *seikW-,
> certainly in preference to one from 'footic'.