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



Melroch 'Aestan wrote:
At 14:37 6/10/2004, Carl Edlund Anderson 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>?

Hittite _e-es-har_ gen. _(e-)es-ha-na-as_ 'blood' is
a possible though unlikely cognate.  There are also
Vedic _as,rk_ gen. _asnas_ and Greek _ear_.

Hmmm, to me those look like they come from a completely different root, though I'm not sure what its hypothetical PIE form might be ... *esr or something.

Cheers,
Carl

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