Re: Is Basque IE?

From: oalexandre
Message: 71304
Date: 2013-09-08

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I told before, gizon is a straightforward loanword from Celtic (Gaulish) *gdonjo- 'man', so there's no place here for on 'good'.
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Like Gianfranco, you ignore what your simplistic theory cannot explain, namely the combining form _giza-_.
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Simple. First, Basque gizon drops the final nasal, giving **gizo-, whose combinatory variant is regularly giza- (most nouns in -o and -e have combinatory variants in -a).

Positing a compound from an extraterrestial *giza- and on 'good' does no good. Please notice this has nothing to do with the origin of the latter, which I agree it can't be Latin bonu-.