From: tgpedersen
Message: 61512
Date: 2008-11-10
>One more reason to suppose a loan.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
>
> > The other is PGmc. *te:k-
> > ~ *tak- (Goth. <tekan> 'to touch', ON <taka> 'to take'),
> > which nicely matches Toch. B <täk-> 'touch, feel with the
> > hand; fetch, procure'). In _From Proto-Indo-European to
> > Proto-Germanic_ he derives these from post-PIE *deh1g- ~
> > *dh1g- 'touch'; from Adams' _Dictionary of Tocharian B_ I
> > gather that Ringe has previously attributed the Gmc.-Toch.
> > match to borrowing in a direction that can't be determined.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> =====
>
> Why should we suppose a loan ?
>
> This root *deH1g (actually *deH2-k) is nicely represented by Arabic
> da&ak "to rub ; to grab each other in a fight".
>
> A.