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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
>
> Portuguese/Spanish Gordo "fat" came from Latin gurdus, of obscure
origin, meaning "stupid, rude". Gurdus seems to be related to IE
*gWer- "heavy" (cf. guru, gravis, barys, brutus) but also to Greek
bradys (<*gWrdu ?)
>
> Comments?
> JS Lopes
Since the PIE root was likely *gWer-x+ / gWr,x+ and the O-U >> L
loanword probably went:
gWr,xtos
gWr:,tos
gWrW:,tos
gWru:tos
bru:tos
there's a possibility another IE language had:
gWr,xtos
gWr,tHos
gWrW,tHos
gWurtHos
gurtHos
gurTos
gurDos
but it's fairly speculative.