Re: PIE *ghe(n)d

From: tolgs001
Message: 21867
Date: 2003-05-14

>Peter Schrijver
>Lost Languages in Northern Europe has a "language of geminates"
>called so since roots from it show a variation "of the final
>root consonant which may be single or double, voiced or
>voiceless, and prenasalised".
>
>He compares a reconstructed Pre-Proto-Germanic (pre-Grimm,
>pre-Verner) *kant- "hand" with Proto-Finno-Ugric *käti-
>(Finnish 'käsi')

Hungarian "kéz" [ke:z] & morphems "kézi, keze-" ['käzä].

>Torsten

George