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But we have some other combinations without the final velar,
which have the same or a similar designation:
an-s-á “bow”: Lat. ansa “handle”.
1. uen-dh- “to tum”: Arm. gind “ring”, German winden.
(WP. I, 261 mentions the possibility that uendh- might be
a nasalized form of uedh- “to bind, join”).
qan-tho- “corner, bending”: Gr. xavdóg “comer of the eye”.
kon-ám- (o-, á-) “bone, knuckle”: Gr. xvrpri “shinbone”.
kuen-dh-rð-, -no- in names of plants: Lat. combrétum, an
aromatic plant, Icel. hvpnn “angelica silvestris” (see WP. I,
472, where “hollow stem” or “swollen” as original designa-
tion is discussed).
gan-dh- “vessel”: Icel. kani “a vessel with a handle”, M.Irish
gann.
gen-eu- “knee”: Gr. yów “knee”.
g(h)en-u-s “chin”: Old-Ind. hanu-h “jaw”.
1. guhen- “to swell”: Old-Ind. ghaná- “thick, dense”.
pan-dos “curved”: Lat. pandus “curved”, Icel. fattr “curved
backwards”.
men-th- “whirl”: Old-Ind. manthati “whirls”.
mon-o- “nape of the neck”: Old-Ind. mányá “nape of the neck”,
Lat. moníle “necklace”.
srén-o- “loin”: Avest. rána-m “thigh”.
len-to- “flexible”: Lat. lentus “flexible”, Icel. linnr “serpent”.
2. len-dh- “kidney, loin”: Lat. lumbus (in lumbago), Icel. lund
“loin”.
sqen- “to cleave, split”: Icel. skinn “skin”, Bret. scant “scale
of fish”.
2. sten- “make narrow”: Gr. atévog “narrow”.
These latter roots, which add different elements (mostly
dentals) to the type vowel + n or consonant + vowel + n, number
17, and thus we have registered 37 IE. roots which all designate
a curved form. Of the remaining constmed IE. roots of the
same type as those treated above we may especially mention
that IE. roots composed by dental + e + n often designate “to
stretch” and this seems to be an imitation of stretching (a
movement backwards from the teeth to the soft palate):
ten- “to stretch, span”: Old-Ind. tanóti “stretches, spans”.
temp- “stretches, spans” (prolongation of ten-): Lith. tempiú
“stretches”, Lat. tempus “time” and “temple”.
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