From: andythewiros
Message: 66138
Date: 2010-05-10
>Sounds like a good explanation for Sanskrit <svad-> "to taste good, to enjoy the taste of, to make palatable or savoury, season" (but also "to make sweet or pleasant or agreeable; to be pleasant or wholesome; to propitiate, conciliate"). Confusion with <sva:du-> seems like it would be inevitable.
> W dniu 2010-05-10 19:10, Joao S. Lopes pisze:
>
> > Could *sweh2du- be a compound? *su-eh2du-?
>
> But what is this *eh2du-? I have myself toyed with the possibility that
> *swa(:)du- 'sweet, tasty' was confused with reflexes of *(h1)su-h1(e)d-
> 'good for eating, well seasoned' in some branches.
>
> Piotr
>