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At 18:06 6/14/2004, Paul Bennett wrote:I'd say *esAr, myself, but I too am guessing. It doesn't *look* like a PIEroot, 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 fittedtogether", which might or might not be suitable sources for semantic drift.The root was brobably *Hes, plus a suffix varying between *-ar and *-an within the same paradigm (plus yet another *-k suffix in the nominative in Vedic), so the whole word should be written *Hes-ar/an-.
If you want to use {a} instead of {Ae}/{H2e} or {A}/{H2}. I prefer not to.
_Sanguis_ is from a compound *Hs-an-gwin, which received a nominative -s becoming regularly _san-gwi:s_ -- the -n- disappeared before the _s_ with compensatory lengthening of the _i_.
Is that *g^win or *guin? Is it potentially *-g^wiH-n? Paul