Re: booze words

Charlie wrote:
>
> >ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote:
>
> >No, It may be common Germanic (Germ. bei-, Du. bij-, Engl by- [byway,
> >by-form]. Maybe ult. cognate (IE?) with "bi-" 'twice' which occurs in
> >Lat. at least, maybe Gk., though Gmc. b :: Lat. b don't correspond.
>
>by- < *ambhi (around), reduced form *bhi in Germanic.
>
>bi- < *dwo, adverbial form dwis, dwi-, > Latin form bis, bi-, and Greek
>form dis, di-.
>
Ah so, thanks, and a big DUH for me. Sanskrit dvi-, (dvija 'twice-born'),
borrowed in Indonesian as dwi-, as in dwibahasa 'bilingual'