On the homonymy of ‘put’ and ‘suck’ in Proto-Indo-European

Abstract

PIE *dheh1- ‘to put, make’ and *dheh1-(i-) ‘to suck (mother’s milk)’ look like two separate verbal roots with a very different meaning, which happen to be homonymous. Yet recent investigations have shown that the morphological behaviour of both verbs is more similar than was previously thought. This article offers a re-evaluation of the evidence and explores the options to bridge the semantic gap between ‘put’ and ‘suck’.

Some Illyrian Ethnonyms and Their Supposed Albanian Cognates: Taulantii, Delmatae, Dardani

“…Strabo's form possibly emendable to the more common Δελμίνιον/Lat. Delminium(Mayer 1957: 118).11 On the morphology and the semantics of *d h eh 1 -i-'to suck' and its relation with *d h eh 1 -'to put' (LIV 2 : 136) seede Vaan (2018a). The root *d h eh 1 -(i-) has three basic meanings: 'to suck milk from a teat', 'to nurse', 'to lactate' (de Vaan 2018a: 177), all of which may surface in individual languages.…”