Re: [tied] Re: Ie. *laywos/leh2iwos (was: ka and k^a)

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 19:56:48 +0000, Sergejus Tarasovas
<s.tarasovas@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Mate Kapoviæ <mkapovic@...> wrote:
>
>> > Less realistic than *laiwos, given the circumflex intonation,
>which
>> > indicates a laryngeal-less root. Derksen posits *lh2aiwo-. Brave
>boys,
>> > laryngealising to the last ;-).
>>
>> Circumflex intonation where? The word itself is not attested in
>Baltic and
>> the Slavic circumflex is irrelevant since we would expect it there
>anyway
>> (Greek laiós - acute would disappeare via Meillet's Law in Slavic
>the word
>> being mobile).
>
>But what about Hirt's law? Wouldn't Slavic a.p. c point to the
>absence of a laryngeal at least on the flanks of *i?

Yes, it rules out *aiH. Cf. *daiHwé:r, Slav. dê"verI, Latv.
die~veris, with Hirt's law (see Illich-Svitych p. 154,
Rasmussen "On Hirt's law", 1).

*daiHwé:r could by my theory be related to *demH-.

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