From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 5781
Date: 2001-01-25
>This is exactly what I propose to reconsider. The root *bHerg^H- (with its hill-fort semantics) is perhaps closer to 'strong, secure' than simply 'tall, high'. Sanskrit participial brhant- < *bHrg^H-ont- means 'high' but also 'important, powerful, firm', the verb brm.hati means 'augment, fortify, strengthen, ...'. In Celtic we have meanings like 'lofty, noble'. There would be no basis for reconstructing the adjective *bHrg^H-ú- if it weren't for Hittite parku-;Arm. barjr (u-stem), Toch. pärkär (an r-stem, like all former
>if, on the other hand, parku- < *prk-ú-, we see at least why quercus should be a u-stem.But isn't it easier to assume that a C-stem *perkw-s would become an