Re: Latin re:ne:s 'kidneys'

On 2009-06-11 00:09, Octavià Alexandre wrote:

> Authority's principle doesn't appeal to me.

And I don't care for straw man tactics. Where did I appeal to authority?

> You haven't stated one
> single reason for which my etymology might be wrong.

Now it's a a pot calling the kettle black. You didn't say why the
etymology I'd cited shoud be wrong -- you just stated that another one
was true. Not, say, "more convincing" but "true". Roma locuta?

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

Anttila's etymology requires one metathesis of a rather common type
(sonorants swapping places) and _no_ semantic shift whatsoever, so why
should it be considered inferior?

Piotr