Re: Res: [tied] Re: Greek ke:tos

At 6:40:04 AM on Tuesday, February 23, 2010, Tavi wrote:

> --- 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'.

I believe that that's actually /kéNxros/.

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

Not ignoring, I suspect, but considering it not to belong
with ON <hrogn>, Lith. <kirkulaî>, etc.

Brian