Re: Requalivahanus


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>> Heidi wrote:
>> Now, find for me the Proto-Germanic *rehwaz: I want to see
>> what it means.


> Brian wrote:
> It means 'darkness'.

Source?

>It's the reconstructed Proto-Germanic
> source of Gothic <riqis> 'darkness' and Old Norse <røkkr>
> 'twilight'. These words are more distantly related to Greek
> <érebos> 'darkness of the underworld', Sanskrit <rájani:->
> 'night', and Armenian <erek> 'evening'; all are ultimately
> form PIE *h1regWos.

O.k...let me know if this is the right order of descendency:

requal
*rehwaz
riqis combined with rokkr
*h1regWos

Is that correct?

Heidi


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