Re: Latin -idus as from dH- too

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 55328
Date: 2008-03-16

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From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
>On 2008-03-15 21:34, fournet.arnaud wrote:
>
>> What's the chain from
>> dhugH2°ter down to kbatra ?
>
>Something like *dHug&2tr- > *dugatr- > *tuwatr- (cf. the HLuw. cognate)
>> *twatr- > *tbatr- > kbatr- (cf. *dwi- > Lyc. kbi- '2').
>
>Piotr
>
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>It's fascinating to see that
>the last vowel -a- comes out of *nothing*

It's the feminine ah2-stem ending, cf. Lyc. wawa < *gWo:ws
"cow", xawa < *h2owis "sheep", etc.
Miguel
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Thank you for additional information,

My original question, answered by Piotr,
was about the a in kb-a-tr.

What does <x> in xawa stand for ?

Arnaud

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