Talk:hawdd

Etymology of sādos

It looks as if the sentence “Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus,[2] and so cognate to Latin suavis, Ancient Greek ἡδύς (hēdús), and English sweet” is wrong. Remé Viredaz says on the CELTIC LINGUISTICS group on Facebook, “Akin with PIE *seh₁-dh- 'going straight' is W hawdd 'easy' < *soh₁dh-o-”, and again, “The etymology *swādus by WG (1913) is not endorsed by Pokorny IEW 1039 f. (and probably not even by Walde-Pokorny). It would have yielded *chwawdd. Admittedly, the "number" of the laryngeal in *seHdh-u- (Skt. sādhu-), *soHdh-o- (hawdd), *sHdh-ye/o- (Skt sidhyati 'succeed', from *'hit the mark'), is not directly recognizable. However, Lamberterie 1990 (Adjectifs en -us) opts for h₁ because he sees *seH-dh- as an enlargement of *seh₁- 'to throw'.” [To find it, search the group for a posting entitled SYTH on 2 March 2019, and see the discussion.]

I am not an expert, though, so I have not changed anything. --Caoimhin (talk) 10:46, 1 February 2020 (UTC)