From: dgkilday57
Message: 71048
Date: 2013-03-08
>By Moeller's rule, PIE *kWod- would not produce Gmc. *xWat-, but *xat-. Cf. Gothic (etc.) _hals_ 'neck' < Gmc. *xalsa- against Lat. _collum_ < *kWolso-.
> 2013/3/7, dgkilday57 <dgkilday57@...>:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <sean@> wrote:
> >>
> >> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <sean@> wrote:
> >>
> >> > > There's no reason to expect a regular change for either above;
> >> > > quadru- shows tr > dr , dr > tr in taeter , maybe vitrum , and
> >> > > definitely:
> >> >
> >> > In _quadri/u-_ we may have contamination with an old word for
> >> > 'whetstone', *quadrum, replaced by _co:s_; cf. OE _hwaet_ 'keen, bold',
> >> > OS _hwat_ 'id.', OHG _(h)waz_ 'sharp, rough, severe', ON _hvatr_ 'bold,
> >> > vigorous'; OE _hwettan_, OHG _wezzan_, ON _hvetja_ 'to whet', from PGmc
> >> > *xwatjanan. Whetstones are generally square and *quadrum could have
> >> > passed into the meaning 'square', whence _quadra:re_ 'to make square',
> >> > and squares have 4 corners.
> >> >
> >> That is certainly a possibility that I would never have thought of.
> >> There's a reason for that.
> >>
> > Note that Pokorny's root-shape *kWe(:)d-/*kWo(:)d- (IEW 636) is impossible.
>
> *Bhr.: why?
>