Re: Latin -idus as from dH- too

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 55339
Date: 2008-03-16

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:55:34 +0100, "fournet.arnaud"
<fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

>As regards *su:bula,
>It's quite obvious I disagree with *siuH1
>
>Meillet p 964
>Pour "coudre", l'i.e avait une racine *syu:
>avec doublet su:,
>dans latin suô, il n'y a pas de trace de-y-.

That's a bit weak from old Antoine. Is there any trace of
sy- in Latin at all?

>Why should we need H1 in this root ?

As Meillet says, the root is <s(y)u:->, with long <u:>. The
only source of <u:> is <uH>. It must be specifically *h1
because the verb is in the Balto-Slavic barytone accent
paradigm while from oxytone *sjuh1-jé-. The retraction of
the accent was caused by Hirt's law, and I believe Hirt's
law did not affect sequences of resonant + *h2/3 (cf. Slavic
bylá < *bhuh2-láh2, pilá < *pih3-láh2).


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