Re: booze words

>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-.

Charlie

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