From: Tavi
Message: 69057
Date: 2012-03-22
>The problem is De Vaan's systematically tries to derive everything from
> > 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'.
>