From: alex
Message: 22489
Date: 2003-06-02
> ************actually I guess "thith" has nothing to do with *seuH2 but this word is
> Besides well-known example <thanj> 'I dry' < *sausnyo, there are also
> thi 'pig' < *su: (cf. Lat. sus, Gr. hus 'id.') with regular loosing
> of nominative ending in Albanian, which could be another example of
> dissimilation. But, in thith 'to suck' (cf. also Slavic sisati 'to
> suck') < *su:k, variant of *seuH2- we have the process of
> assimilation s - s < s - k, like we have in sos < *pekW-'to burn, to
> ripen', assimilated, like in Italic and Celtic languages, in kWekW-.
> So, I am afraid that rather for the process of dissimilation, we have
> to deal with the process of assimilation.
>
> Konushevci
>