Re[2]: [tied] Re: Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian, Northern Cauc

At 8:29:13 AM on Sunday, September 28, 2008, Arnaud Fournet
wrote:

> From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@...>

>>> To start with, I think such a thing like -tl- is
>>> impossible in PIE.

>> While it may not have been very stable, it does seem to
>> turn up as zero grade.

>> From *stelh2 'broad(en)' (Pokorny #1885 pp1018-9) we have
>> Latin _latus_, _la:tus_.

> Watkins does not seem to accept that.

He does, though through some error the root *stel&- in the
paper version is missing from the on-line version. The
entry begins:

stel&- To extend. (Oldest form *stel&2-.) Zero-grade
form *stl.&-. 1. Suffixed form *stl.&-to-. LATITUDE;
DILATE, from Latin <la:tus>, broad, wide.

Brian