Re: hound

From: Anatoly Guzaev
Message: 65189
Date: 2009-10-07

It seems that Gothic fra-hinþan is a cognate of Russian про-гонять/progonjat' (chase, expell, гнаться 'to chase'; SC progoniti, Cz honit, hnát 'chase').

DV


To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
From: dgkilday57@...
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:30:49 +0000
Subject: [tied] hound

 
 The sense of *henþ- in this view is 'incite, urge into motion, chase', and of Goth. <frahinþan> 'to chase to the end', i.e. 'to catch'.

DGK




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