Re: Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian, Northern Caucasian and Indo

From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60339
Date: 2008-09-25

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
>
>> Also Latin <a:la> 'wing, upper arm'
>> (< *axla).
>
> ... but this one has sometimes been analysed as *h2ag^-tlo- 'instrument
> of driving, propeller', and the same derivation might work for Germanic
> *axslo:. Jens Rasmussen, in a 2002 article, has argued that the <axis>
> word may reflect a decompositional, reduced byform of *h2ag^-tlo- (cf.
> Gk. hamaksa '[framework of a] wagon' < *sm.-h2ak^Tih2).
>
> Piotr
>
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I don't understand how *h2ag^-tl-o could become a:l-a
Could you please detail the steps ?

Apart from the other point that I do not believe in this -tl- cluster.

Arnaud