Proto-Indo-European Roots
| Root/Stem: | *kaiko- |
| Meanings: | blind |
| Cognates: | |
| Italic | Latin caecus 'blind' |
| Celtic | Old Irish caech 'one-eyed', Welsh coeg 'empty', Old Cornish cuic |
| Indic | Sanskrit kekara- 'squint-eyed' |
| Germanic | Gothic haihs 'blind' |
| Notes: | This root could be regarded as the so-called
"European" word, unless the Old Indic word which proves the Common Indo-European
origin of the root. In fact, the diphthong *ai was rather rare in Indo-European, as well as the very sound *a. There can be maybe 10 or 15 roots which contain this diphthong found among the Proto-Indo-European corpus. Were they loanwords from some other language? |