From: stlatos
Message: 70180
Date: 2012-10-12
>L sangui:s has a long -i:- in the nom., so that doesn't work. Compare *welt > vult, *vels > vi:s. The -gw- should obviously be from IE gW since Sanskrit had -k. There are also many other problems with the above.
> In Irene Balles' etymology they can be analyzed as related but different
> compounds:
> *h1sh2n-h1gw-n > sanguen
> *h1sh2n-h1gw-i-s > sanguis
>
> 2012/10/11 stlatos <sean@...>
>
> > Even if alapa was an Etruscan loanword, it wouldn't necessarily avoid
> > weakening, since weakening occurred even in early loans from Greek, like
> > balaneion >> balineum (also w/o preserved -a-, against your supposedly
> > regular rule).
> >
> > An irregular rule is needed to show why accounts of OL show assara:tum =
> > ~blood wine, but aser = blood. Even OL sanguen but L sangui:s suggest it
> > goes far back if:
> >
> > *
> > ashargW ashan+
> > ashangW ashan+ (analogy; opt.)
> > ashangW ashangW+ (analogy)
> > ashan ashangW+
> > ashangWan ashangW+ (analogy)
> > ashangWan ashangWan+ (analogy)
> > as_angWan
> > asangWan
> > sangWan
> > sangWen
> >
> > sangWen
> > sangWel (dis; opt.)
> > sangWel+s (analogy)
> > sangWels
> > sangWeys