Re: [tied] eye

On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 20:52:32 -0000, "petegray"
<petegray@...> wrote:

>>initial *h3- for this word (*h3ekw) would
>> seem to be in conflict with the reduplicated *i:kw- forms found in
>> Sanskrit and Greek. In Greek, *h3i-h3kw- should give *yo:kw- (zo:p-,
>> ho:p-, zo:b-, ho:b-?), shouldn't it?
>
>I don't follow that argument. #HiV- might well give zV or yV, but here we
>don't have HiV, we have HiH, which could give Hi: > i:, which is just what
>we find.

I'm just back, and I don't have a lot of time to look for references.
There is a theory (by who?) that in Greek:

ih2 -> ia
ih3 -> io
ih1 -> i:

The evidence I've seen (despite a few exceptions) seems pretty
convincing. Similar claims for, I believe, Armenian and Tocharian
have also been made.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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