Re: Laryngeal theory as an unnatural

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

> On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 12:07:37 -0000, "tgpedersen
> <tgpedersen@...>" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:
> >> > Sanskrit for heart, which presupposes an
> >> > initial gH^ instead of k^ found elsewhere.
> >>
> >> But Skt s'rad-dadhati ("believe") shows the expected form. The

hrd

> >form may
> >> come, as Pokorny suggests, simply from a rhyme-word developed
> >within I-I.
> >>
> >> Peter
> >
> >Herz und Schmerz? ;-) I still think mine is a possible solution.

But

> >I should look into all the other dh/t, bH/p etc alternations to

see

> >if an explanation with a "loose" nasal might work.
>
> Perhaps you should concentrate on finding a "loose" nasal in the

first

> place. In IE, we have s-mobile, but there's not a shred of evidence
> for an "m-mobile" (as there is in Kartvelian). Given the almost
> complete absence of prefixation in Proto-Indo-European (again, as
> opposed to Kartvelian, where for instance 1/2 person verbal affixes
> are prefixed), I predict you're not going to find anything.
>
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

That m-prefix ("my heart"?) would be a one-off thing, true. But there
is a n-infix. And of course I might argue that there once was a nasal
prefix, and that it disappeared, leaving no traces but t > dH etc.

Torsten