Re: slavic "voda" - IE Spelling Conventions

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 13-07-03 16:45, Richard Wordingham wrote:
>
>
> > Incidentally, could someone please tell me what the

superscript 'x' in

> > 'baxb', root 149, mean?
>
> An indeterminate vowel: *bVb- ~ *bHVbH- ~ *pVp-. Needless to say,

such a

> "root" is hardly worth reconstructing.

It possibly belongs in the same category as the animal noises in
Pokorny, which is not necessarily the wastebin. Animal noises do
vary from language to language, even though *kuku 'cuckoo' (Root
#1059) be extremely common. (You've already made the point that such
words get restructured or replaced when they deviate from the bird
sound phonetically - your posting on that topic is in the first third
of the archives.)

Richard.