From: Tavi
Message: 69278
Date: 2012-04-08
>That's right, but please notice servus has nothing to do with servo: 'to watch', in spite of De Vaan conflating both words. His dictionary is a rather mediocre work, unworthy of its monetary price.
> Gothic hilpan "help" (Korsch Potanin-Festschr. 537, against it Endzelin c. 1. 42).
>
> > Together with Baltic *c^elb-, *c^é~lp- 'to help'
> > this would point to a root *k^elp'- with a labial ejective. IMHO
> > this etymology would explain Latin servus 'slave' as a substrate
> > borrowing from a "satem" (in my own usage, not the traditional one)
> > language. There're other "satem" words in Latin which would also
> > deserve study.
>
> Yes, I proposed that too.
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/68510?var=0&l=1
>