[tied] Re: Laryngeal theory as an unnatural

From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 24756
Date: 2003-07-22

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 22:32:39 +0000, Richard Wordingham
> <richard@...> wrote:
>
> >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...>
wrote:
> >What is the root below? I don't recognise it.
> >
> >> Another example may well be **xú:y-u-, obl. **xu:y-ú (> *h2óy-u-
,
> >> *h2yu-)
>
> Pokorny aiw- ~ ayu- "Lebenskraft'.
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...
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I think that this root derives in Albanian word <jetë> 'life', as an
extended form *aiw- + - ta:.

Konushevci