Res: Res: [tied] Re: (was Latin Honor < ?) Bestia

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

> > > IE *dhe(gh)- and Uralic teke- "put down"
> > > Latin stlocus -> locus "place"

[...]

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscan
> 'Latin locus (place) was absent and represented by the hapax
> slaagid (place)... .'

> Obviously not. Oscan slaagid must be at least root cognate to
> Latin stlocus.

Brian Joseph doesn't think so; see
<www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~bjoseph/publications/1982oscan.pdf>,
in which he connects it with Gk. <lé:go:> 'to leave off, cease',
with an original sense 'border, boundary' ('where something
leaves off') later extended to 'territory'.

Brian