Re: dhuga:ter ('LARYNGEALS')

On 2008-03-23 22:14, fournet.arnaud wrote:

> Hmhm
> so the syllabication was
> *h2ow # i-h3 # n-o ?

No, *h2o.wih3.no- will do. The Francis-Normier breaking does happen in
compositional sandhi, cf. *proti-h3kW-o- > *protjo:kWo- > proso:pon
'face, countenance, looks'.

> Another question :
>
> About khelo:ne: "tortoise"
> Is there Hoffman's suffix in this word ?
> or it's another formation ?

Perhaps. It might belong to the type of Gk. Dió:ne:, Skt. Indra:n.í:-
'Indra's wife', etc., which has been analysed as involving the Hoffmann
suffix. But the details would have to be sorted out.

Piotr