Re: [tied] Battle of the cow

And Greek presbys < *pres-gWu-

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From: Piotr Gasiorowski

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Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 2:28 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] Battle of the cow

Don't forget good ol' Gmc. *ku:-, usually explained by assuming *o:u > *u:, though nobody has ever proved that such a development is normal in Germanic. I think something like *gW(o)u-h2- (treated as a consonantal stem, and so rmaining outside the *a:-declension) may underlie it; cf. Greek dru:s 'oak < tree' (*dr(o)u-h2-). But in these cases the hypothetical *-h2 is external to the root.

Piotr

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From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal

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Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 4:07 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] Battle of the cow

OK, but it's still possibly *gWowH-ino-. We have Skt. gu:-tha-, Arm. ku (*gWuH-t-), W.Germanic *kwa:t- (> Germ. Kot) < *gWeh1-d-, etc.