Re: [tied] Re: Indo-European /a/

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> wrote:
>>
>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "elmeras2000" <jer@...> wrote:
>> >
>> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
>> wrote:

>> *bhars-/*bharis (lat. far "Spelz", germ.
>> *bariz "Gerste", gk phe:ron "Nahrung" < *bharsom),
>
> Impressive with its stable /a/.
>> Lat. fa:ba "Bohne"
>
> Recte faba. Collective corresponding to Sl. bobU. Strange
> relationship to Gk. phákos, Alb. bathë, even stranger to Germ.
> *bauno: .

Lat. far and faba are not very conviencing in proving an IE *a since in
Latin a/o difference is not very stabile after labials, that is *o tends
to change to /a/ (mare, ca:seus, canis, parie:s, margo: etc.), cf.
Schrijver 1991.

Mate