On 2008-10-31 21:51, Arnaud Fournet wrote:
> I asked for -uH2o- in one morpheme as in k(^)uH2on.
Anything as complex as *k(^)uH2on was in all likelihood polymorphemic in
PIE, even if we can't identify the morphemes involved. Judging from its
vocalism, the 'dog' word was something similar to *h1dont-, i.e. a
secondarily hysterokinetic noun, possibly an old participle like
*k^éw-on(t)- transformed into a noun (for a similar process, see
*sah2-wl. --> *s[h2]wo:l, etc.). It's just like Modern English: you
don't have to know the meaning of "whelm" to make out the morphological
structure of "overwhelming".
Piotr