Re: Latin re:ne:s 'kidneys'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> I don't doubt that, and I don't insist that Anttila is certainly right
> while you are certainly wrong. Still, "being true" and "looking sound

to

> someone" are two _very_ different things.
>

Authority's principle doesn't appeal to me. You haven't stated one
single reason for which my etymology might be wrong.

Phonetically the match is good, and semantically there's a little shift
from 'hip' to 'loins'/'kidneys'.

Octavià