Re: Fr/lat/ru tu-vous/tu-vos/ - : etymology ?

On Oct 2, 12:50 pm, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 2, 6:13 am, "benli...@xxxxxxxxxx" <benli...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Please do.I will need to see a reference on this claim.

The publication I had in mind is not the one I mentioned
this morning but a volume of the same monograph series:

Complex Societies of Central Eurasia from the 3rd to the
1st Millennium B.C., Regional Specifics in Light of Global
Models, Volume 1, edited by Karlene Jones-Bley (and)
D.G. Zdanovich, Journal of Indo-European Studies,
Monograph Series 45, Institute for the Study of Man,
Washington D.C. 2002

D.G. Zdanovich and L.L. Gayduchenko, Sintashta Burial
Sacrifice: The Bolshekaraganski Cemetery, quote from
page 211:

"(...) It was determined that the incisions on the bones
of the left and right extremities were made by different
implements. This allows us to assume that in each
case the cutting had been performed by two people.
One cut the left part of the carcass and the other
cut the right one. As a rule, the bones of the right
extremities have a considerably smaller (1.5-2 times)
the number of incisions than the bones of the left
extremities. We can assume that the right part of
the carcass was processed by a "master" while the
left part was cut by a "helper" who made more
mistakes. // Looking for an analogy to this peculiarity
of the Sintashka material, we can address the rituals
of the Hittites who not only distinguished between
left and right parts of the sacrificial animal, but also
attached a great sacred significance to the latter
(Ardzinba 1982:135).

(to be continued)

Continuation, especially for Jack Campin

Hypothetical AY for the left eye would also have
survived in Old English (Bosworth Anglo Saxon
Dictionary 1882):

Piers the Plowman eighe plural eighen

John Wycliff ei3e plural ei3en

and in Indo-European according to Pokorny:

au- auei- 'to perceive, to take up with the senses'

for example Greek aisthanomai 'to perceive'

OC for right eye was preferred to AY for left eye,
as the right extremities of a sacrificial animal were
preferred to the left ones (see above), yet also the
AY form survived, and I repeat my opinion that
Old English eage English eye are derivatives of
the compound AY OC and hence originally a plural.

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