Re: Hittite arma 'moon'

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 63942
Date: 2009-05-28

On 2009-05-28 21:06, Petr Hrubis wrote:

> Hi, Piotr,
>
> Can't this be an instance of cognacy rather than just homonymy?
>
> The relationship between poor ~ weak ~ sick is quite easy, cf. Kannada
> /bad.avu/ "poor, weak"...



I mean homonymy between *h1er- [1] 'set in motion' and *h1er- [2] 'be
poor/weak/sick/...'.

Piotr