From: stlatos
Message: 70038
Date: 2012-09-06
>It's not found elsewhere, so the rec. would explain only Celtic words, with no other cognates. I don't believe it existed, or that such a word could exist (which is partially why I gave my own explanation) so I don't know for certain the exact original intent in "creating" it. Presumably it was posited to go along with changes from PIE > Celtic that would give proto-C * demegar \ dewegar or something similar.
> In a message dated 9/5/2012 12:47:12 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> sean@... writes:
>
> >Jens Rasmussen (Miscellaneous morphological problems in Indo-European
> languages V, CWPL 2, p. 98) suggests W. daear/Br. douar come from PIE
> *dems-(h1)eg'her@2 "the borders of the dwelling",
>
> Regardless of whether the Welsh or Breton comes from this, is it
> something that we could consider a PIE "word?" Or just a hypothetical
> construction to try to explain these particular words?
>