From: tgpedersen
Message: 64969
Date: 2009-09-02
>So did I. Both the 'ice' and the 'icle' part.
> ***R Would English ice < gicel < *Hieg/k- (vel sim) and Uralic *jäNe work as examples?
> >
> Loans is nicer.
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/60884
> It accounts for two traditionally unconnected IE roots.
>
> Form in donor language something like *in,g- (note B.-Sl. forms
> with -n-), partitive genitive *in,g-s- (as in *gl-á-s- "coagulated,
> jelly stuff") -> *i:-s- -> *ei-s-. If so it came from the same
> source as *gl-á-s-.
>
> Torsten I meant "icecicle" --
> thanks for pointing it out but you lost me with the *gl-a-s thing1. PIE *gel- "freeze, coagulate" or *g^el- "shine" (probably the same