Re: Latin longus < *dlh1-ongh-o

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

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>
> Hello,
>
> I saw some difficulties to link Latin & Germanic 'long' to the

root

> for long: *delh1gh-o ; *dolh1gh-o ; *dlh1gh-o
>
> The idea that I have seen is to consider the root to be only

*delh1-

>
> like: *delh1-gh-o ; *dolh1-gh-o ; *dlh1-gh-o
>
> and in this case Latin & Germanic 'long' are derived as:
>
> PIE *dlh1-ongh-o > [dl>l] > Latin longus
>
> NOTE: however the lost of initial d seems to date to a Dialectal

IE

> period based on Germanic 'long' too (see also Lithuanian ilgas < *

(d)

> lh1gh-o)
>
>
> My questions are:
> 1. what is the meaning of the root *delh1- in this case?
> 2. what is the meaning of the extension -gh- ? Do we have similar
> constructions?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Marius

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For me this is all the question of phonotactics: a set of
constrains, language characteristic, on how sequences of segment
pattern. Because -dl- has constrains on this clsuter of segment
modeling, it is natural this cluster to be treated as simple /l/, as
do, for example, also cluster -sl-. This cluster was replaced in
Albanian and Greek with -gl- that has no constrains in both
languages (cf. Alb. i glatë 'long' > Gheg <i gatë> and Tosk <i
gjatë> or Greek *dl.ku > glukus 'sweet'). This cluster in Slavic
languages has no constrains: dlaka 'hair', dlan 'palm' etc. So, as
Germanic languages, as Latin, regarding cluster -dl- has constrains,
therefor, *dlongho- as possibly extended (*dlon-gho) has as regular
outcome OHG lang and Latin longus.

Konushevci