Re: [SPAM] [tied] Re: Latin /a/ after labials, IE *mori

On 2009-06-02 18:53, alexandru_mg3 wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com <mailto:cybalist%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Piotr,
> I do not see any reaction from you, on these examples, that hardly can
> be linked to any other root but g^enh1- 'to beget'
>
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> Goth. kno:dai [dat.sg.f.] 'family' *g^noh1-
> Skt jña:ti 'kinsman *g^noh1-ti-
> Latv. znuõts 'son-in-law' *g^noh1-t-
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Hardly any other? How come that most linguists interpret the word as
*g^noh3-ti- 'known, recognised' (see Lubotsky for I-Ir. and Derksen for
Balto-Slavic), perhaps secondarily contaminated with *g^enh1- in Lith.
z^éntas. I, for one, wouldn't like to beget my own son-in-law, but I'd
like to know him.

Piotr