From: Octavià Alexandre
Message: 63598
Date: 2009-03-11
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>I fully agree with you. This root is Vasco-Caucasian and it compares with Starostin's PNC *Hadz:Em- 'to clean, clean': http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=/data/cauc/caucet&text_number=+299&root=config
> In case it wasn't clear in my posting, I claim that *san,(W)- is not IE (alone the root /a/ makes it suspect), which means it can.
>
The Basque reflex is xahu 'clean' < *sanu, commonly thought to be a loanword from Latin sa:num, although actually the latter is a substrate borrowing.