Re: Stacking up on standard works

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@...> wrote:

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> > Gamkrelidze-Ivanov and Nikolayev agree in deriving vitrum from

*k´wei-t- 'light, white' (cfr. Lithuanian s^vìtra- 'sandpaper'),
with *k´w- > Latin w- as in *k´wep- > vapor.

> >
> > On the other hand, Germanic *waizda- and Greek isátis 'goad

(Isatis tinctoria)' would be derived from the same root with different
suffixes.

> >
> PIE *k(^)woi-dH-to- should give Gmc. *haizda-, and PIE *k(^)wi-twa-ti-

should give Grk. *tisatis, so I doubt that the three words for 'woad' in
question have any etymological connection.

>

Apart from the limitations and inconsistences inherent to the std PIE
model, in these language 'goad' is likely a Wanderwort.