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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" wrote:
>
> > Beekes - Etymological Dictionary of Greek
> >
> > https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2MQAxDmRLhubVY2djhicnVzRWs/edit
(both tomes
> > in one pdf)
> >
> > Cheers
>
I hope someday "Brill-leaks" will give us the forthcoming Proto-Germanic
dictionary by Guus Kroonen.
> Beekes regards _'anthro:pos_ 'man, human being' as Pre-Greek on the
grounds that no good IE etymology has been proposed. Guentert (cited by
Pokorny, IEW 41) proposed 'beard-faced', connecting the first element
with the 'awn, chaff, barb' group of _an'e:r_, _anth'erix_,
_anth'eriskos_, etc. Beekes considers this group Pre-Greek also, since
the IE ablaut *h2endH-/*h2n.dH- could give only Greek _anth-_, not
_ath-_. However, within this group only _ath'e:r_ and its derivatives
lack the nasal, so folk-etymology with _ath'a:re:_, _ath'e:re:_
'wheat-meal broth, gruel' (of Egyptian origin according to Pliny) is
possible, replacing *anth- with _ath-_ here. Thus I would not rule out
a PIE root *h2endH- 'to make prickly' vel sim., whence *h2n.dHr'o-
'prickly growth, whiskers, beard' > Greek *anthr'os, and following
Guentert _'anthro:pos_ 'beard-faced one, grown man' > 'man' > 'human
being'.
>
Dear me! Then Yeti aka Big Foot (pictured by Conan Doyle in his novel
"The Lost World") would be representative of genuine human beings.