From: stlatos
Message: 68526
Date: 2012-02-09
>I just wrote that same word for something, implying that rec. *kesr+ not *ke:r+ implies looking for a connection among those less obv. connected. The same word meaning 'hair' and 'comb' also helps the *kosa = 'hair' / 'scythe' pos.
> At 2:42:18 PM on Wednesday, February 8, 2012, Piotr
> Gasiorowski wrote:
>
> > Cf. *xe:ra- 'hair', which in my opinion reflects *kes-ró-:
>
> > http://hdl.handle.net/10593/1990
>
> Which looks very like MatasoviÄ's reconstruction of *kÄ«srÄ
> 'comb' (OIr. cÃr, fem. Ä-stem), with unexpected long vowel
> in the root. I gather that the development of *-sr- in
> PCelt. is uncertain; do you know whether there's any
> possibility of something like
>
> *kes-rah2 > *kesrÄ > *kÄ"rÄ > *kÄ«rÄ
>
> instead?
>