Re: Reindeer: another ideer

--- On Fri, 12/19/08, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> From: Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
> Subject: [tied] Reindeer: another ideer
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, December 19, 2008, 10:22 AM
> What about *xraina- < *kWrói[h2]-no- 'something
> valuable' from the root
> *kWreih2- 'buy' (converse of 'livestock'
> --> 'wealth', as in <feoh> or
> <pecu:nia>)? It could be compared to OLith. krieno
> (gen.), Latv. kriens
> 'price for a bride' (which, incidentally, was often
> paid in cattle, and
> among the old Finns and Saami in reindeer). The root seems
> to be
> otherwise unattested in Germanic, but as it occurs in
> Celtic and
> Balto-Slavic (not to mention other branches), the absence
> may be due to
> relatively late lexical replacement of the old verb by the
> relatives of
> <buy> and <kaufen> (the latter, borrowed from
> Germanic, has almost
> ousted the native reflexes of *kWreih2- from Slavic).
>
> Piotr
>

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