Res: [tied] Re: Greek ke:tos

From: Tavi
Message: 65885
Date: 2010-02-23

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
>
> PNC *XXwanX\V could explain Greek kegkhris, a kind of fish
>
I don't think so. My own Greek dictionary gives me /kégkhros/ 'millet
(grain); fish egg'.

Apparently ignoring the Greek form), Mallory & Adams (2007) reconstruct
regional PIE *krek- 'fish eggs, frogspawn' found in Germanic and
Balto-Slavic.