Re: Latin re:ne:s 'kidneys'

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

>
> 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?
>

Anttila's looks ugly but mine looks nice. Aesthetics also counts.