Re: IE roots or Gmc innovations?

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 62771
Date: 2009-02-02

On 2009-02-02 23:15, Rick McCallister wrote:

> Related to Latin fodi-, "ditch", right?

You mean <fossa>, right? It's *bHodH-tah2 [-tst-], a substantivised
verbal adjective.

BTW, the EIEC attempts to group the *swo:G- words with Gk. e:kHó:
'echo', e:kHé: (Dor. a:kHá:) 'noise' etc. as *(s)wah2gH- (with an
s-mobile) 'cry, resound'. This would rule out any connection with
*sweGla- (which for me is reason enough to question the EIEC analysis).

Piotr