Re: Lat. niger once again

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

>
> > As a first guess I would
> > suggest *re:nis meant 'bent object' vel sim. from *(w)re:(C?)-,
> > *(w)re(CC?)- with formation parallel to <pa:nis> from *past-nis, the
> > root being *wer- 'to turn', but I need to come up with a plausible
> > protoform. At any rate a loanword from an obscure language in order

to

> > deal with medical tabu seems to me VERY unlikely.
>
> I agree with that.
>

Prejudices about what can be borrowed and what cannot don't appeal to
me.

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