Crīmen from cernō

Fragment of a discussion from User talk:Rua

It was specifically the reconstructed form, *cernimen. That just doesn't make sense.

CodeCat02:21, 12 September 2014

Well, it was not my fabrication, it is on that referred dictionary (on which for discrīmen indicates from *discerimen, should this seem more plausible). But could you not just have deleted the *cernimen form instead of the whole etymoloy?

GuitarDudeness (talk)02:26, 12 September 2014

I guess I didn't need to delete all of it. From what I can see, it goes back to Proto-Italic *kreimen, from a PIE form *kréy-mn̥ (oblique *kri-mén-), but I don't know if that form can be reconstructed for PIE itself.

CodeCat02:30, 12 September 2014

Good. Can you in the least add the etymology with that information, even if just the root and its relation to cernō and cribrum?

GuitarDudeness (talk)02:34, 12 September 2014