Re: Not "catching the wind " , or, what ARE we discussing?

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 57406
Date: 2008-04-15

On 2008-04-15 23:30, stlatos wrote:

> Why would you say *kYuwn,- > *s'un- instead of *s'uva-? And then in
> Ir (of some kind) dim. *suvaka- >> sobaka.

I was referring to hypothetical +k^un-bH-, not to +k^uwn.-bH-. Anyway,
the word is <s'vabHis>, not +s'uvabHis, and what we actually find
widespread in Iranian is *spaka- 'dog(-like)' (cf. Skt. s'vaka- 'wolf').

Piotr