From: Tavi
Message: 68101
Date: 2011-10-04
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@...> wrote:
>No, what you've got is two verb roots *demH2- 'to build' and *domH2- 'to tame', which are possibly the same, and a NOUN root *dom- 'household' (not 'house') which IMHO (and also those of other specialists) has nothing to do with the former.
> > > For example, if we admit that dom- and demH2 were from the same root
> >
> > Oh, come on! PIE *dom- 'household' is a NOUN root, not a verb.
>
> both are from * dem-x+ = make straight/right/fitting > fit in / enclose / etc. > make (tame/fitting/good) / etc.
>
The problem of most Indo-Europeanists is that they've got an isolacionist point of view, and so they try to explain everthing in IE from PIE itself.