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Does anyone happen to know the origin of Latin <sanguis>, <sanguin>-
("blood"). I can't find a PIE source. Is it thought to be Etruscan?
Unknown? Surely its not connected with Greek <haima>?
Possibly G <ear>/<e:ar>, or Hittite <eￜhar, eￜhnaￜ>, and Sanskrit <asrk, asnas>, etc., an r/n stem something like *esH2r, *esH2n- (in Pokorny, *e(:)sr(g_w), *@snes, 343.) -- the Latin word's been befunged somewhat anyway (-is, -inis doesn't seem normal for L) but it might go there, more likely than with <haima>.
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