Re: [tied] Re: vulgar Latin?

On Thu, 01 May 2003 00:52:38 +0000, Abdullah Konushevci
<a_konushevci@...> wrote:

>I hope that You will agree that in Indo-Iranic branch, the PIE root
>for water was *ab- (cf. abdes, Turkish form of Persian compound <
>ab 'water' and dast 'hand', hoshab < Pers. hosh 'good' and
>ab 'water', gülab < Pers. gül 'rose' and ab 'water', abi 'blu', etc.)

The Indo-Iranian root is actually *ap- (Skt. a:p-, ap-, Av. a:fs^,
ap-). A root *ab- does seem to exist in Celtic *abon- "river,
stream", but it is best explained as *h2ap-h1on- (or *h2ap-h3on-),
"having water". A root *h2ap- would not give Albanian av(-ull) or
Rom. (through pre-Albanian) abur(e).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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