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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.
I'd say *esAr, myself, but I too am guessing. It doesn't *look* like a PIE root, however, which is actually quite a big mark against it in my book. Maybe Ees-Ar is more plausible? The two roots mean "to be fitted together", which might or might not be suitable sources for semantic drift.
Paul