The Iceman's Berries

[Stanley Friesen]

At 03:10 PM 6/14/01 -0400, JoatSimeon at aol.com wrote:
>I-- well, a word for it would be a helpful hint.

>We have *eiwo, and *taksos

>*ei-wo produces cognates in Slavic, Germanic, Celtic, and (possibly) Hittite.

Unless the Hittite form belongs here, I would not reconstruct this word to
PIE.  It looks more like a European word, like many other words shared only
between Slavic, Germanic and Celtic.

>*taksos has cognates in Latin, Celtic, Greek, and Indo-Iranian.

This looks older, as it covers all the widely separated branches except
Hittite.

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