Re: [tied] Re: PIE's closest relatives/SIBUN

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From: "Miguel Carrasquer" <mcv@...>
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Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 1:54 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: PIE's closest relatives/SIBUN


> Not at all. Greek <osse> cannot come from *okWih1: *-ih1 gives Greek -i:,
> not -ye. The thought that the Greek dual ending -e comes from *&1 is
> rendered impossible by the fact that Lithuanian and indirectly Old Irish
> also point to *-e. *&1 cannot give -e in Lithuanian. The ending
> underlying the Greek, Lithuanian and Old Irish forms must therefore be
*-e,
> or perhaps *-ye, and has no laryngeal.

Lithuanian has aki` with the acute intonation pointing to *-iH. OCS oc^i is
also regularly derived from *h3ekWih1.As for Old Irish, I don't know what
you mean. *h3ekWih1 is rendered in Greek as *h3ekWyh1 (*-i- is not syllabic
and laryngeal is therefore vocalized). We see that in Greek -ss- which comes
from *kWy. Otherwise, we would have Greek **oti: which is not the case.

Mate