From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60035
Date: 2008-09-14
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From: "Andrew Jarrette" <anjarrette@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
>
> Are you saying that the English word <cild> is in his Dictionary of
> Indo-European Roots, but its kinship to Gothic <kilthei> and
> <inkiltho:> and Scandinavian <kulder etc.> is not? Or do you mean that
> English <cild> not in his Dictionary of IE Roots? That would not
> necessarily mean that the word is unique to English (as I thought your
> original point was), since the Gothic and Scandinavian cognates
> disprove this; as well, so mundane a source as Webster's New World
> Collegiate Dictionary suggests that <cild> goes back to IE *gel-
> "rounded" which through "swelling" came to mean "womb/pregnant" and
> thence "foetus, child"; this *gel- is there also suggested as the
> source of Latin <globus> "sphere" (and cf. also Sanskrit <glau>
> "lump/moon/earth", English <clue> in its original sense (= <clew>)
> "ball of yarn or thread").
>
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Yeniseian is *z^_l < *g^el
not from *gel
Arnaud