Re: [tied] tomb

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 11:41:11 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > I looked it up; Late Latin <tumba>, from Greek <túmbos>, no

further

> >explanation. Does it go with the Germanic
> ><dumb>/<stumm>/<stump>/<stub> "lump" root (if it did, it would

behave

> >a root from Schrijver's "language of geminates", beside the s-
> >mobile), or with Greek <taphos> "tomb"?
>
> Allegedly from "Pelasgian" (pre-Greek) *dhm.bhos, like

púrgos "tower" from

> *bhr.ghos. Characteristic for this layer would be the

development /R./ >

> /uR/ of the syllabic resonants, and the peculiar variant of

Grassmann's Law

> (*dh..bh > t..b, **bh..gh > p..g).
>

Is that Georgiev (I seem to recall)? It seems the regular development
of that *dhm.bh-os with ordinary Grassmann would lead to <taphos>. If
so, how is that accounted for, in historical terms?

Torsten