Re: Family terms [was: Kluge's Law in Italic?]

W dniu 2012-02-13 22:03, dgkilday57 pisze:

> With the fading of the prolongative sense of *-t-, *dHug^H&2ter-
> 'milker, milkmaid' was then formed analogically (root *dHeug^H-, as
> in Skt. -duh 'milking'). Greek in this view absorbed the laryngeal,
> *-g^H&2- > -ga-, as in <me'ga>.

It was *meg^h2-, not *meg^Hh2-: Germanic *mek-, Armenian mec, which
leaves the "laryngeal absorption" in <tHugáter> unsupported. Now if the
'daughter' word was *dHugh2ter- (as usually reconstructed), the link
with *dHeugH- 'to milk, press' (sic! with *gH, not *g^H) is hard to
maintain.

Piotr