From: Torsten
Message: 65503
Date: 2009-12-04
>Hm.
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@> wrote:
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: João S. Lopes Filho
> > > To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> > > Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 4:55 PM
> > > Subject: [tied] leudh- > Germanic > OE leode
> > >
> > > What's the Germanic reconstructed form for OE leode and another
> Germanic cognates (liud-,liot-, ljod-, etc) ???
> >
> > The base is *(h1)leudH- > Gmc. *liud-, *liud-i- > OE le:od (f.),
> > OS liud, OHG liut (m.), pl. liuti > Modern German Leute. Gothic
> > preserves the related verb <liudan> 'grow, increase' = OE le:odan
> > (*le:ad, ludon, -loden). Virtually identical nouns meaning "folk,
> > nation" or providing a suppletive plural ("people") for "person,
> > man" are also found in Slavic and Baltic (e.g. Polish pl. ludzie
> > 'people' < sg. collective *ljudIje < *leudH-ejo-m).
> >
> I think nobody has paid enough attention to the great similarity
> between the roots *(H1)leudh- and *teutéHa-, both meaning 'people'.
>
> The alternation between *l/*t could be explained as being different
> reflexes of a former lateral affricate *tL. Starostin-Nikolayev's
> PNC *HittL'i:wV(-l/V)
> http://tinyurl.com/y8bocbv
> 'root, seed; kin' would fit nicely here.
>