Re: [tied] PIE 'brow'

On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:52:38 +0000, whetex_lewx
<whetex_lewx@...> wrote:

>Latin has the same ending (as Lithuanian) with short -a-: -as
>(brevit-as, maiest-as...).

That's -at-s, of course (brevitas, brevitatem).

>These are rare, but... Greek has -os
>instead Lith. -as, also look, Latin relict - AC-I-ES, i specified it
>in Dictionary: of the eye, [a piercing look or keen vision];
>sometimes [the pupil of the eye, or the eye itself].

But that's from h2ak^- "sharp".

>Just some
>Germanic languages have -o-, but some, like English, German or
>Gothic have diphthongs (ai, au).

Gothic <ai> and <au> are merely spellings for /e/ and /o/.

>Every short Lith. a in Greek are
>changed by o, so what was first a ---> o, or o ---> a?

o > a in Balto-Slavic. /o/ was first.

>Tochar. B has ek-i-, short vowel, also one of forms AKSI

Tocharian o > e.

>I believe, that Hittitic was ak- too and there weren't any
>laringeals. But I don't find dictionary. Or maybe it was hak-, but i
>find no sence to state that it was -o.

The Hittite for "eye" is <sakuwa->.


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