From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 66938
Date: 2010-12-05
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "piervantrink"It's in Pokorny: (gHre:-), gHro:-, gHr@- 'wachsen, grünen'
> <piervantrink@...> wrote:
>> 9/Many supoosed proto ie roots are supported by examples
>> of very few Indo-European branches and sometimes by only
>> 1 ie branche,or from only 1-2 branch with very
>> unbelievable sound changes forgetting the
>> innovation,loans and chance propabilities.
>> As an exemple,the supposed pie *h2ég^H-r root has only 2
>> given examples both in the same Indo-Iranian
>> branch(Avestan and Sanskrit) *h2ég^H-r/n.;- day Skr.
>> ahar, Av. azan
> [I've taken the liberty of transliterating Unicode to
> Latin-1.]
> There are two entries that cite reflexes from only one
> branch:
> *gHreh1 Eng green, grow, grass
> This one needs some investigation. There may be
> connections with some similar roots, though it is
> discouraging that neither Pokorny nor the 'Concise
> Dictionary of English Etymology' (Onions) offer a PIE root
> for these words.