Re: [tied] Brugmann's Law

01-10-03 09:41, Mate Kapovic wrote:

> But where does this *h2 come from? An why *h2 and not *H (any laryngeal)?
> You ruled out the possibility of the laryngeal in the root for Latin,
> correctly in my oppionion, but still you stick with the laryngeal. I don't
> think we can say >>>what works for <dáma-> ought to work for <rása-> as
> well>>>, it *could* work but this is still no proof.

I'm just considering it as a possibility without insisting that the
solution must be right. I ventured *h2, since in those cases where we
have a detectable laryngeal added to a root in derived thematic nouns,
it's usually *h2 (causing the aspiration of a preceding stop in
Indo-Iranian). Perhaps it was simply a noun-forming suffix, *-h2o-, like
*-so- or *-to-, but its function is not clear to me yet.

Piotr