Re: [tied] Re: Battle of the cow

On Thu, 01 Nov 2001 17:45:37 -0000, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
<S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...> wrote:
>> There does seem to be a laryngeal in *gWou-H- "[bull]shit" (Slav.
>> govUno).
>
>Why not *govIno with an adjectival *-In-? Is *H (whatevet it be) >
>Slavic *U a plausible derivation?

Probably not (though I suppose it's not unthinkable that *w& > *wu).
In any case, Pokorny's *U should be *I (he writes *govUno with a star,
I suppose there's no bullshit in the OCS Gospels). I should have
given a clearer example of why this root is considered to have a
laryngeal (see my reply to Piotr).