Re: Latin -idus as from dH- too

On 2008-03-15 21:20, fournet.arnaud wrote:

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> From: Piotr Gasiorowski
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> What other reasonable etymologies have you got for unaspirated vs.
> aspirated stops in the instrumental suffix, for example?
>
> Piotr
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> What do you mean, Piotr ?
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> Arnaud
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The alternation traditionally reconstructed as *-tr/lo- ~ *dHr/lo- (Lat.
-trum/-tra/-culum/-cula ~ -brum/-bra/-bulum/-bula, Gk. -t- vs. -tH-).
Olsen shows that in Latin the latter variant occurs regularly after
roots with final *h2 and *h1 (but not *h3).

Piotr