Re: Present participle

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2008-10-12 23:47, Andrew Jarrette wrote:
>
>
> It remains to be demonstrated that it occurs in Italic, and what we

have

> between Slavic and Germanic is a vague root equation, not an exact
> correspondence involving parallel derivatives. It adds up to very weak
> evidence.
>
> Piotr
>

What I didn't realize is that Germanic and Slavic have <g-> (<h-> in
Czech) while Latin has <f->. I failed to pick up on the fact that PIE
*gh- should yield Latin <h->, not <f->. That's a very important
consideration that I didn't take into account, and which makes me now
support your doubts about the connection of <faveo:> to the purported
Germanic and Slavic "cognates". So I agree with you, now.

Andrew