From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60167
Date: 2008-09-20
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
I felt it was a problem that the words of the type *(a)ku/a(n)t- meant
both "cover" and "hunt" which seemed to me incompatible:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/51041
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/51053
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/59612
Actually the solution is pretty obvious: the "hunt" sense was once
"lie in wait", the active sense must be later. That matches "cover,
hide" pretty well.
I think Hont and Hunte belong with the *skeut- river names provided
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/54799
by Udolph.
Torsten
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I don't think these words can be put together :
1. Hunt is an Uralic loanword. Cf. Moksha kunda 'capture, hunt'.
According to me, cognate to *gh_bh "seize".
2. House *hu:s and *ku:t look like Yeniseian words from PIE *gher 'house,
garden'.
Zero grade ghr- > qur- or xur depending of which Yeniseian language you look
at.
3. *sko:h-az is unclear. Yeniseian ce:se "shoe" can be from k^eH1-s
'covering'.
I suppose Germanic can be from *s-koH1-k-
I suppose you are trying to create some substratic embrouillamini around
Germanic,
with a- mobile as invited guest star.
I restate that this a- mobile is an indo-european feature.
Cf. Latin A-mi-cus and Mi-tra from *mei 'exchange / friendship'.
Arnaud