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

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From: "P&G" <petegray@...>
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Subject: Re: [tied] Re: PIE's closest relatives/SIBUN


> >>The presence of a laryngeal at
> > > the end of 8 seems clear (Sanskrit shows -au and -a, and cases with
> > > both -a- and -a:-), and the ending -o: points to -h3.
> >
> > Hardly. The ending was *-oh1, not *-eh3. You have *h3ekWih1 > OCS oc^i,
> > Greek osse in which -e shows that the dual ending was *-h1 and not *-h3.
>
> You are assuming that the word is a dual. This assumption is based on the
> form of the ending, and therefore cannot later be used to deduce the form
of
> the ending - that would be a circular argument.
>
> If there is independent evidence either that the word is dual, or that the
> ending is -h1, I'll accept it.

tó: ósse in Greek is dual as far as I know. It has the dual article to: and
the connection of dual with "(two)eyes" is transparant.

Mate