Re: [tied] *ghom

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] *ghom


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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: alexmoeller@...
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 11:59 AM
> Subject: [tied] *ghom
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> > what does speak against form *gWhom for the radical *ghom
(earth)?
>
> First and foremost, the treatment of the initial in the
Satem languages (Skt. gen. jmaH, Av. zam-, Alb. dhe, Lith.
z^eme., Slavic *zemja) rules out *gWH- completely. The actual
form is *dg^Hom- or *dHg^Hom-, with the cluster simplified to
*g^Hom- in some branches, but reflected in Skt. ks.am-, Gk.
kHtHon- (by the way, *d(H)gWH- would have given Gk. pHtH-),
and Tocharian A tkaM, whereas Hittite preserves a particularly
archaic form (tekan, gen. tagnas) with a vowel between the
initial consonants (*deg^H(o)m- or *dHeg^H(o)m-). The
reconstruction of the actual vocalism is still debatable as
regards the fine details, but the consonant you asked about is
*g^H in any case.
>
> Piotr


[Moeller] thank you Piotr