Re: Latin re:ne:s 'kidneys'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:

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> --- 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)
>

Perhaps the liquid *s- was simply dropped. In that case, the root should be *(s)reneH2/4-. It still seems to me the most likely etymology for Latin re:ne:s.

BTW, Baltic *ranka: 'hand' is a loanword from Sino-Caucasian *r'aNHV 'hand, bone'

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