*h1ngni-, Fire
From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 19262
Date: 2003-02-26
Why does one reconstruct *h1ngni- from Latin ignis, Sanskrit agni-
and Proto-Slavic *ognI? I can't see the justification for the
first /n/, though it is consistent with the Latin and Sanskrit
forms. (So is the reconstruction of the first vowel as /e/, as in
Pokorny.)
Richard.