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--- Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@hidden.email> wrote:
> On Friday, January 30, 2004, at 11:47 AM, Carl
> Edlund Anderson wrote:
> >
> > I was trying to construct an alternative to
> Latin mil-es, -itis based
> > on
> > PIE *ghengh- (also the root of Gaulish
> *cing-es, -etos ("marcher,
> > warrior", as in the name Ver-cingeto-rix).
>
> Ghenghis Khan? ;-)
Why not? I can't find *ghengh itself in Tocharian
context, but I wonder if that root couldn't have
had Tocharian reflexes and thereafter be
connected with Chingiz, the other spelling of
Genghis. Chingiz apparently means "great ruler"
or similar (no comment on reliability!), so it's
in the general semantic universe of *ghengh and
*cinges.
If I could remember where I put Sihler, I could
comment more on *hinges.
Padraic.
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