On 2008-10-11 15:28, Arnaud Fournet wrote:
> Is *werH acceptable as the root of Latin veritas ?
If Lat. ve:rus, Gmc. *wæ:ra-, Celt. wi:ro- < *we:rh1-o- (rather than
*weh1-ro-, as some analyse it; cf. also Slavic *ve^ra 'faith'), it is a
vr.ddhied derivative of *werh1- 'speak' (quite a sensible derivation).
Etymologies of Varuna often start with this root, though it has to be
said that there were probably a few very similar PIE roots (*(h)wer(h)-)
with different meanings. In particular, the root of 'wide, broad' was
also either *werh1- or something very similar.
Piotr