Re: Hat

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

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

> > > Pokorny? How come both *kass- and *katt- turn up in Germanic,
> > > NWBlock, Latin and Greek, and how are they related to *kWekWVl-
> > > (vel sim.)?

> > No. I'm not claiming this etymology:
> > Dacian was satem with the particularity that kW/+ > c^ gW/+ > g^
> > (as in PAlb). So, a supposed *kWekWVl- would give *c^ekul-

> > As I said: PIE *kat- or only *kaT fits both Dacian *kac^- and Latin
> > cassis => so I think that we have a dental+dental cluster here:
> > (because PIE Dental+Dental > Latin ss ; PIE Dental+Dental > Albanian
> > s)

> But PIE dental + dental > PGerm. -ss- too, without exception

Not at all. I gave a long list of words with T+t > st after r() and
other conditions fairly recently.

It's also possible that *kaxdh+ >> *kx,dhtu+s > *xattu+z if there
was no t>s after a fricative and if tt didn't become a interdental
fric. gemin. later, depending on the rules. Otherwise an affix with a
nasal (*-nu-?) with dhn > dn > tn > tt would be possible.