* Re: Push (3)

From: bmscotttg
Message: 62977
Date: 2009-02-11

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "afyangh" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> There's an interesting possibility to link wife, with no known
> etymology, with Vogul wup.

> Mansi (Vogul): wûp (P) 'Schwägerin, Tante; Frau des jüngeren
> Bruders des Mannes', ûp (So.) 'Frau des jüngeren Bruders der
> Mutter'

On the basis of Gmc. *wi:bam and Toch. A <kip>, Toch. B <kwi:pe>
'female pudenda' a root *gHwi:bH- 'shame; pudenda' has been suggested.

<http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE175.html>

Brian