From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 63762
Date: 2009-04-05
>For Latin fascis, fascia Schrijver reconstructs *bHask-yo
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@> wrote:
> >
> > At 7:49:46 AM on Saturday, April 4, 2009, alexandru_mg3
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Is not quite clear for me what is the PIE root of Latin
> > > fascia
> >
> > > Is bHedHh2- 'to press, to bend' (Pok.113-4) >
> > > *bHodHh2-sk-eh2 ?
> >
> > Try Pokorny, p.111: *bHasko- 'bundle, heap'. So also in
> > Watkins.
> >
> > Brian
>
>
> It cannot be bHasko- if the Latin words fascia, fascis are cognates
> with
> Alb. bashkë~Rum. baskǎ) 'bundle of fleece'
> Alb. bashkë [adv.] 'together'
>
> that is very probable
>
> due to the fact the Albanian intervocalic -sk- > -h-
>
> So it contains a cluster -Csk-
>
> Marius