Re: Laryngeal theory as an unnatural

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

Ahem. Once again. I propose that the m- prefix in the "heart" word
also existed at some time in IE and that it changed the IE k^ in the
Sanskrit "heart" word to dH.

Torsten