Re: Latin acipe:nser "sturgeon"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:

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> Latin anser < *hanser < *hansis- < PIE *g^Ha:ns + -is extension

This is a slight possibility, as such forms exist, but * gYHan.-s.o-r.ó+s also existed.

> LAtin passer < *passis- ?

No ev. for -is, all ev. for -r-.

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> Latin acipe:nser < *acipe:nsis- ?

I'd say analogy from the nom. -is. > -ir. first, though Latin -s- > -r- in most env. makes it uncertain.

> LAtin glis < *gWli-s-
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> aci- < *akW- "water?

There appear to me to be 3 Latin words for 'swift moving' specified for sky, earth, and sea. The presence of the other two w similar variation makes a different origin for the third unlikely, though it's not completely impossible if some of my assumptions turn out to be wrong.