Re: 'dyeus'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@...> wrote:

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> I suspect that <claudus> 'lame' is an inherited IE word, though I have no convincing derivation. It probably has no more to do with Clondicus than with the Klondike.
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> DGK
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It's related to L claudere (from older meanings 'close / fasten door / lock / bind / chain / hinder', so 'hindered > limping/stumbling > ' etc.).