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

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

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> For example, if we admit that dom- and demH2 were from the same root
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Oh, come on! PIE *dom- 'household' is a NOUN root, not a verb.

> Some time ago, I remember I read on the Net a study according to which the first element of Latin "materia" (whose first meaning was construction material, carpentry; cf. French "madrier" = "big pole", Portguese "madeira" = "wood") would come from *dmH2 > dma- > ma- (teria)
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But Latin ma:teria has a long /a:/, and also your etymology won't explain the remainder of the word. Although some Indo-Europeanists (e.g. Ernout-Meillet, De Vaan) think this is derivated from ma:ter 'mother', IMHO this is a genuine (although probably not PIE-native) root *meH2t-r- with cognates in Greek, Armenian and Slavic.