From: Tavi
Message: 65517
Date: 2009-12-05
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>Mallory & Adams quote *H1leudh- 'to grow' and *teuHa- 'to swell' as the base root.
> > 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.
>
> Hm.
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/44457
>
> > ??????
>
> I suppose it's the semantics that makes you balk.
> I thought I had already posted an idea of mine that *lew-dh- "people" thing was a derivative of *lew- "loose", ie. separate, independent (and therefore in some way semantically connected with "leaf"), but I can't find it. Here at least are some of the other deeds I'd ascribe to this root:
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/53477
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/51202
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/54560
>
The meaning 'leaf' is quite compatible with PNC *HittL'i:wV(-l/V). In fact, I think Basque horri '(large) leaf' could be related to it.