Re: Latin re:ne:s 'kidneys'

From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 64131
Date: 2009-06-11

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Octavià Alexandre <oalexandre@...> wrote:
> This is why I regard *sreneh2/4- 'hip' as more adequate to explain the
> Latin word. Futhermore, Basque has errain, errein- 'kidneys' (with
> protetic e- because Basque doesn't allow for rhotics at word-initial)
> from a lost IE language (Italoid aka IE-Ligurian).
>


Also, no offense, Alexandre, but as I know *sr- gave fr- in Latin

One example, is Latin fri:gus 'cold' (> Romanian frig) from *srihg^- (please see the related Greek form too)

Marius