Re: hound

On 2009-10-07 07:02, 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').

Nope. The Slavic verbs are derived from the root *gWHen- 'strike' (cf.
the old present of *gUnati, *z^enoN 'I chase away'). *gonjoN, *goniti
'chase, follow' comes from the iterative *gWHon-eje/o- 'strike
repeatedly'. Germanic has several nouns derived from the same root, e.g.
*Gunþiz < *gWHn.'-ti- 'battle' (OIc. gunnr, OE gu:þ), but no primary verb.

Piotr