... Was it refarded as a characteristically _bare_ body part among the Germani? *Bo:sma- doesn't even necessarily refer to the breast(s). I know the word best...
... bHám.sas- - as it is neuter, the final /s/ is part of the stem. It's on p742, and the meaning is given as 'a particular part of the intestine or...
... In German, der Busen /'bu:z&n/ (Old High Germ. buosam, buosum.) means (1) "breast/s;" (2) a gulf: Meerbusen (syn. Bucht, Meeresbucht, Meeresarm, Golf)....
... Thanks, Richard. Could somebody help with the derivation of bHám.sas- from a root bHes- as Pokorny indicated ? I'm not sure what is the transformation...
... http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/MWScan/MWScanjpg/mw0742-brAhmaNi.jpg 'bHám.sas- a particular part of the intestine or of the abdomen RV....
... <m.> (anusva:ra) indicates the nasalisation of the preceding vowel, which is how all underlying nasals are realised before a fricative in Sanskrit. <n.>...
... No. First of all, the Skt. stem is consonantal, i.e. it reflects an *-os/-es- stem without a final *-o-. Secondly, an interconsonantal *m would have been...
... " where the bHos- derivatives are 'a kind of swollen limb' (abdominal part, bosom part, foot part)" I will add here : Skt. bhasád 'pudendum mulier, penis...
... But Piotr, the word is under bHes-2 at Pokorny (see Pok. 146) And I cannot think see that Pokorny can made such a trivial mistake....to link a word to a...
... Also my opinion is that no vocalisation is need in bHVs-mso- (PIE m. > Skt. a) Because the supposed word bHVs-mso- would have been had 2 syllables: /...
... I know. But it's one of the shakiest roots in the whole book. ... There's plenty of _extremely_ doubtful stuff in Pokorny. ... Two points: (a) *bHes-...
... Unfortunately, speakers of PIE and Old Indic didn't think so. /ms/ was not a permissible syllable onset in either language, nor was /sm/ a permissible...
... In Skt. bhasád 'a genital part' we clearly have PIE *bHVs- very probable *bHos- Also a semantic link with Germanic *bo:smaz 'bosom' and with PIE *bhosos...
... No. He was most likely wrong in that case, which surely doesn't make him "an idiot". It's human to err, and the best and wisest of us also make mistakes. ...
... We don't seem to understand the words "clearly" and "probable" in the same way. Of all the PIE vocalisms *o is the least likely one here (no Brugmann's...
... Before to consider that he made 'an error' viewing an -s- where it isn't....I need to know his ideea first (that is not explicitly there...)...this was my...
... Just because is similar,yes: - both from a phonetic bHVs- - as from a semnatic point of view 'bHVs-' 'a swollen limb of the body (we have: bosom limb,...
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