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

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 36960
Date: 2005-04-07

elmeras2000 wrote:

> Recte faba. Collective corresponding to Sl. bobU.

There are quite a few puzzling lexical correspondences connecting Slavic
with Italic -- things like Lat. secu:ris, Slavic sekyra 'axe', or Lat.
lu:na, Slavic *luna < *louksnah2 (with reference to the moon). They
might point to prehistoric contacts somewhere in Central Europe.
*bHabHo-/*bHabHah2 looks like one of those.

> Strange
> relationship to Gk. phákos, Alb. bathë, even stranger to Germ.
> *bauno: .

*bauno: could easily result from early dissimilatory lenition of a
bilabial fricative in *BaBna: < *bHabH-nah2, making the relationship
less strange (though leaving the *n unexplained). The "Balkan" variant
*bHak^o-/*bHak^ah2 remains fully strange, of course.

Piotr