Re: [tied] *pot-

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> The suffix is -n. Greek *pot-n-ih2 > potnia is regular.
> -poina comes from *ponja, reduced from *potnja.
>
> That Polish pani comes from *potnih2 (with pan backformed on
> it) is an old idea of mine, but doesn't seem to be tenable.
> The lengthening o > a is not easily explained, and the older
> form is OCz. hpán, suggesting *gUpan-, a borrowing from
> Iranian (also z^upan, etc.)
>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

why exactly *gUpan with "gU"?
I keep in mind the time frame where the change "an" > "1n" since the
Rom. reflex of the word is "jup1n". The "ju" could be yelded out
off "g^u" or "iu" but the Slavic "an" remains "an" in Rom. and does
not become "ân".

Alex