Re: [tied] SMOK^WR (ex Re: Nominative: A hybrid view)

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 22824
Date: 2003-06-07

On Sat, 07 Jun 2003 13:27:50 -0300, João Simões Lopes Filho
<josimo70@...> wrote:

>*smok^wr or *smokWr- ? Baltic and Albanian points to kW, while Sanskrit seems *k^

In Sanskrit the second *k^ has even assimilated the first *s (smas'ru ->
s'mas'ru). The word looks like an old -wr/-wen-stem, so *smok^-ur,
*smek^-wn- with plain *k^.



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