Re: [tied] wre:g^, wro:g^ 'break'

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 24017
Date: 2003-06-29

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> 29-06-03 00:12, Richard Wordingham wrote:
>
> > Do you have other examples of h1 +
> > voiced stop? Your examples are all
> > h2 + voiced stop.
>
> How about *terh1b- ~ *treh1b-, as in 'thorp'?

*b immediately raises suspicions. Given the schwebeablaut pair
*terh1b, *treh1b, what ablaut form does Celtic *treb- come from?
However, the alleged Greek derivatives may shed light on the
anomalous Greek zero grade forms of wre:g^ (*rh1 > ra ?), so they
are useful for my initial implied query.

Richard.