From: tigeradolf
Message: 71785
Date: 2014-09-19
Hello, I was looking at those words:
ψεύδω/ψεύδομαι "I lie/deceive" and albanian hutoje/hutlojë/hutrrohem "I confuse/deceive"
I was thinking that both forms could derive from the same root resembling something like *kseud- with suffixes like -ro and -lo in albanian leading to *kseud-ro and *kseud-lo. A word with unknown etymology that is similar is Sicilian dialect scutra meaning "bad luck".
The only PIE root that looks like that is from the Pokorny lexicon and is *kseud and means "to grind, stamp to little pieces" which is semantically quite far
The proposed etymologies for the albanian word are the following:
hutoj derives from hutë (owl) with figurative sense
hutlojë from older *hutël based on hutoj
there is also the word hut which is believed to derive from PIE *ua (empty)