Basque <ibili>

[Eduard Selleslagh]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Trask" <larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 12:51 PM

> Roz Frank writes:
>>  <gorapil(a)> (*<gora-bil>?)"knot", whose meaning is not always entirely
>>  clear.

> As explained above, the first two of these are transparent and regular.  The
> third is obscure: very likely it does contain *<bil>, but its first element
> is opaque.

[Ed]

What about *gorda-bil, where the first element could be a Romance loan (<
corde, cuerda), i.e. coiled up rope?

Ed.