Re: [tied] Re: Laryngeal theory as an unnatural

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 09:54:13 -0000, "tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...>" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>> The interchange mbh ~ mb is common in IE. I remember reading an
>> article about a possible rule: /mbh/ directly before the accent,
>> elsewhere /mb/, but I don't remember where.
>
>One example of which is Sanskrit for heart, which presupposes an
>initial gH^ instead of k^ found elsewhere.

But there is no nasal in "heart".

>I believe I saw somewhere
>Georgian m-kert (approx!) "heart" or "breast" (now I can't locate it)

Kartvelian *mk.erd-:mk.rd- "breast, chest": Georgian mk.erdi,
Megrelian k.idir-, k.&d&r-, Svan m&c^.wed, muc^.od. (Klimov, 123).
Despite the fact that Klimov does not segment the word as *m-k.erd-,
I'm convinced *m- is a prefix here, as shown by the Megrelian form.
The correspondences PIE *k ~ Kartv. *k. (pace Bomhard) and PIE *d ~
Kartv. *d (pace Bomhard and Illich-Svitych) are, I believe, regular.


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