Re: [tied] das Wort

On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 06:46:22 +0100, alexmoeller@... wrote:

>The last tought is I knew that PIE *dh >d in old idiom of
>getae which should mean there cannot be a root *werdh for rom.
>vorba. But, I see in 2 examples ( I need to verify more) that
>it seems there is an exception. PIE *dh>b in ancient idiom
>when falowed a liquid .And the both words where I see this
>explained are:
>*bhardha>barba
>*werdh>varba>vorba.
>In both cases we have "r" fallowed by "dh" with the result
>"b".
>I need to verify in more examples that this *dh after a liquid
>gave and "b" instead of normaly "d"

May I suggest you look for them in Latin? That's where the soundlaw
rdh > rb belongs.

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