--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>"
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham
> <richard.wordingham@...>" <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
> > This last word might be related to Nostratic *wod (or is it

*wed?),

> > e.g. PIE *wed (English water, Greek hudo:r 'water') and some
> > Dravidian cognates which I got from
> > http://www.datanumeric.com/dravidian/page082.html , viz ud- = to
> > become wet, be soaked (743-Konda); ud- = to become wet (Pengo);

ud-

> =
> > to get wet (Manda); ud = to become wet, damp (Kuwi); odde =
> moisture,
> > wetness, dampness, wet (1047-Kannada); vedde = moist, wet

(Tulu).

> > (The numbers refer to entries in 'A Dravidian Etymological
> > Dictionary' by T. Burrow and M. B. Emeneau; Clarendon Press,
> Oxford -
> > Second Edition - 1984.) Alas, the web document doesn't give any
> > Tamil forms!

> http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/wd.html
>
> Enjoy!

Thanks, but you ought to use a consistent spelling for PIE words!
I'd recommend a non-glottalic one.

Richard.