Re: [tied] PIE 'brow'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:

> On 04-11-05 21:23, Sergejus Tarasovas wrote:
>
> >
> > Is it possible that PIE *h3bHruh- 'brow' be actually *h3kW-bHr-u-
> > 'eye-circumflexer', from *bHer- 'weave, twine' (according to

Admas

> > in EIEC, > *bHr-u- '(bolt of) cloth')?
>
> *h3(o)kW- is a likely explanation of the "prothetic" o- in Gk.

opHru:s

> and Slavic *(o)bry. As for the second part, I'd be quite happy

with

> *bHruh2(?)- 'bridge' if only cognates of Gmc. *bru:/*brugjo: were

found

> more widely.
>
> Piotr

Why *h3kW-bHr-u- is expressed as h3 but not as h2? In Lithuanian h3
mutates as -uo-, but this reconstructed h3kw- is related to akis
(eye) (short -a- vowel).

Latin acies - of the eye? Sanscrit ak-; Latvian acis, Armenian aku
and etc... Couldn't be eye in PIE not h3kw-, but akw- (short a
sound, which became o in Latin and relicts of short -a- are visible
only in secondary Latin forms?

*h3bHruh-; bHruh- may be related to Lithuanian bru:ks^nys (line,
German strich), brez^ti (to line, German zeichnen, ritzen). Also
Russian brovka (brov` - eye brush) related to Lithuanian briauna -
edge.