Re: Stacking up on standard works

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 69054
Date: 2012-03-21

At 8:12:41 AM on Wednesday, March 21, 2012, Tavi wrote:

> Also some of De Vaan's etymologies, e.g. Latin vitrum
> 'glass; woad' from IE *wed-ro- 'water-like' are rather
> inventive, to say the least.

It can't be all that inventive, since Sihler (223.5) accepts
it. He also says that 'for the semantics there are a number
of parallels'.

Brian