Re: eH- themes, 5th Declination Latin, IE cognates?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@...> wrote:

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> > To me, it looks like a "cousin" of *g´enh1- 'to bear a child; to be
> > born', which I link to NEC *ts'än?V 'new'.
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> The roots *kenh1- and *g^enh1- have similar shapes. That is all. There is no basis for connecting them etymologically.
>

Of course not inside of the mainstream framework, but possibly as parallel external loanwords.

> Those of us open to long-range connections, but unable to assess proposed links to NEC roots, would benefit if you provided some basics in your Vasco-Caucasian Files. One would like to see the reflexes in the individual languages. At the minimum, one would like to be able to exclude borrowings into NEC from Gothic, Ossetic, and the like.
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As a starter, you could review this old article (in Russian) by Sergei Starostin where he lists a series of presumed Vasco-Caucasian loanwords into PIE, including the forementioned *g´enh1-.

It also looks like that Starostin's PNC (or rather Proto-NEC, as he lumped NEC and NWC into NC) looks a like a much older entity than commonly thought, going back to early Neolithic or even Mesolithic. Of course, among Starostin's etymologies there're also some IE (usually Ossetian) loanwords, but they're quite few in number and easily identifiable.