Re: [tied] tomb

On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 11:41:11 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

>
> I looked it up; Late Latin <tumba>, from Greek <túmbos>, no further
>explanation. Does it go with the Germanic
><dumb>/<stumm>/<stump>/<stub> "lump" root (if it did, it would behave
>a root from Schrijver's "language of geminates", beside the s-
>mobile), or with Greek <taphos> "tomb"?

Allegedly from "Pelasgian" (pre-Greek) *dhm.bhos, like púrgos "tower" from
*bhr.ghos. Characteristic for this layer would be the development /R./ >
/uR/ of the syllabic resonants, and the peculiar variant of Grassmann's Law
(*dh..bh > t..b, **bh..gh > p..g).

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