Re: leudh- > Germanic > OE leode

> Regarding /t/ vs. /l/ --does Ulixes/Ulysses vs Odysseues figure in?

I remember an etymology of Odeysseus as a hypochoristic from *o-duk-y-, something like "he who leads" (the people on to the beach for battle vel sim.). It just occurred to me that if PPIE *du:k- was really *Luk-, that would explain both *o-duk-y- and *u-luk-y-.

Also I think *Luk- is actually the same as the *Lum- (*Lun,- ?) "people" word and that this word, which seems to appear where *kan,-t- "division, faction, (orderly) element of battle formation" should be seen as contrast to that word, thus meaning "the whole people as such, the unordered people, the people stretched out in a row, non-battle-formation), which means it becomes related to the *dlun,- "long" word.


Torsten

> If so, what else can be added?
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