Re: hound

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--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Anatoly Guzaev <anatoly_guzaev@...> wrote:
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> 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').

No. Slavic *g goes back to PIE *g, *gW, *gH and *gHW. Gothic <h> goes back to PIE *k^, *k and, in Gothic final position only, *g^H and *gH. (I trust you weren't comparing the Gothic <þ>, which is part of the stem, with the Slavic infinitive ending.) This all you are left with that match are a rare place of articulation (phonation is inconsistent), an uncertain vowel and /n/.

Richard.