Re: hu:ma:nus - humus - guman

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 66449
Date: 2010-08-13

At 12:19:18 AM on Friday, August 13, 2010, Joao S. Lopes
wrote:

> How to explain the -u- in Latin hu:ma:nus, humus, humilis,
> and Germanic guman (OE guma), if these words get back to
> *dHeg^Hom - root?

From a zero-grade oblique stem, *(dH)g^Hm-.

Brian