Beaver Again (was: PIE's closest relatives)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> Richard Wordingham wrote:
> >
> > *bHebHru- does not have a thematic vowel! What are your

examples of

> > deverbal thematic nouns from reduplicated stems?
> >
> > Richard.
>
>
> how sure is the reconstruction of *bhebHru- in fact?

Quite secure. See
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/15273 and
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/15273 . The
etymology of the word is another matter - the traditional theory
is 'brown animal' (rather as for English 'bear'), but 'splasher' has
also been proposed -
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/15161 . I don't know
any good suggestions as to the origin of the well-attested final -u-.

Richard.