PIE *dom- 'household' (was Re: Gimbutas)

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

>
> A common BELIEF among Indo-Europeanists is that PIE *dom- 'household'
> derives from *dem(h2)- 'to build'. But this view has been challenged

by

> some authors, e.g. Pierre Chantraine, who in his Dictionnaire
> étymologique de la langue grecque, p. 292-293, remarks that this

root refers to an

> INSTITUTION ('dwelling place') rather than to a building ('house').

With regard to this, it's

> remarkable the compound *dem-s-pot- 'master of the house', with the
> genitive form *dem-s-.
>

Émile Beneviste (Le vocabulaire des institutions
indo-européenes) is on the same opinion.