--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:
> On 04-10-20 06:49, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>
> > I think that a number of these (haran-, hastai, hawi- at
> > least) reflect Ablaut *h2o- > o- / *h2e- > a-, with later
> > generalisation of one vowel or another (usually o-, but e.g.
> > Celtic has a- in "bone", Indo-Iranian a- [not a:- < o-] in
> > "sheep").
>
> And possibly *h1o in the 'mount, testicle' set.
>
> Piotr
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It seems that you have right about *H1or-g^h-, a verbal root, that
derives in Hitt. <ark-/arg-> 'to cover, copulate' (pres. mediopass.
3rd sing. arga, part. <arkant> 'covered'.
From this root is derived word <testicle>: nom. *H1org^his, gen.
*H1org^hé/yos, Hitt. pl. arkiyes, Gr. órkhis, Av. &r&zi, Arm.
orjik', OIr. uirgge < coll. *H1org^hiya: > Alb. <herdhe>.
Much interesting are Lituanian derivation <arzhilas> 'stallion',
that has cognate in Alb. <harmshor> 'id.', probably drived from
*H1or-g^h-mo- > harm + suffix -shor, where three consonantal
cluster /rmsh/ was reduced to /msh/.
Konushevci