Samuel Ekeme N'Diba (ekeme_ndiba) wrote in linguaphiles,
Samuel Ekeme N'Diba
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Some Greek etymology

Is Greek tyri ('cheese') somehow related to the set of cognates which includes Lithuanian sūris ('cheese'), Russian syr- ('raw', 'moist', also 'cheese'), English sour, German sauer, etc.? If so, how comes there is leading 't' instead of *yri<*hyri? Well, PIE *t is a source of secondary s in Greek (e.g. esy vs. English thou, French tu, Russian ty), but not vice versa?

Also, http://www.etymonline.com says the origin of Latin totus is unknown, but isn't there an obvious correspondence with Greek toso (<*totjo 'so much')?
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