Re: Indian Salmon and Greek Ants (was Re: an axe to grind)

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:07:36 +0000, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:

>Roger Mills wrote:
>> IIRC the usual reasoning for "salmon/10,00" has to do with quantities of
>> salmon going upstream to spawn, or perhaps with vast quantities of salmon
>> roe (but is that universally considered edible???). Personally I'm
>> skeptical...........
>
>Yes, I agree - I am very skeptical. For one thing the supposed connexion
>in meanings seems to me _very_ strained. Also it seems odd that this
>claimed PIE root apparently survives only in these two very separated
>areas. Why no other occurrences?
But there are other occurrences in the sense `salmon'.  Starostin's database
gives Slavic _lososI_, Baltic _lac^-i-s_, Tocharian B _laks_ (in ad hoc
transcription).

Alex