Non-IE roots in Germanic/@, a, e, i, j, o, u

[Anthony Appleyard]

Rick Mc Callister wrote:-
> *i:sarno [Celtic, Germanic] > iron, Eisen n.
> [< ?Vasconic *isar "star";
> see Basque izar "star"] [mcv2/98, tv2/98]

Larry Trask <larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk> replied:-
> No comment.

Also, Greek `side:ros' = "iron", Latin `sidus' (gen `sideris') = "star". This
semantic association was quite possible in early times when Man had not yet
found how to smelt iron and iron was a precious rarity available only as
natural nickel-iron alloy in meteorites.