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Re: [romconlang] root of "sanguis, sanguin-"?


On 11 Jun 2004, at 17:51, Muke Tever wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:37:06 +0100, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea@hidden.email> 
wrote:

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 <ešhar, ešhnaš>, 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>.
I was guessing a more archaic nominative singular than <sanguis> would simply be the stem + -s: *sanguins. That was how I was going to have it in my "alternate xeno-latin" :) though maybe I ought to go off and find another PIE root for "blood" and construct an Italic version .... 

Cheers,
Carl

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