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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:05:23 +0000, Abdullah Konushevci
> <a_konushevci@...> wrote:
>
> >The root of word <eagle> is n-steme noun *H3er-(e)n-, that yields
>
> >*or-(e)n-. attested in Hitt. nom. haras `id.', acc. hara-na-an,
gen.
> >ha-ra-na-as, that explains the presence of laryngal /*H3/.
>
> The fate of initial *h3- in Hittite is disputed. It usually
> yields 0-. Hitt. h- in haras, haranas can therefore be
> construed as evidence for *h2-. The Ablaut would then be
> h2o-, h2e-, comparable to that of wódr, wédnos etc.
>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...
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Dear Miguel,
Now I am cited from an article of Frederik Kortlandt:
INITIAL LARYNGEALS IN ANATOLIAN
FREDERIK KORTLANDT
Elsewhere I have argued that initial *H2- and *H3- yielded h- before
*-e- and zero before *-o- in Armenian and Albanian and suggested
that the same development may be established for Hittite, e.g. harp-
`separate' < *H3erbh- versus ark- `mount' < *H3org .h-ey-, Gr.
orphanós, órkhis (cf. Kortlandt 1984: 42). The new monographs by
Kimball (1999) and Rieken (1999) have strengthened my view
that this is indeed correct.
In his classic study of *H3 in Anatolian, Melchert lists seven
examples of ha- <
*H3e- (1987: 21):
(1) haran- `eagle' < *H3eron-, Gr. órnis;
(2) harp- `change one's group' < *H3erbh-, Latin orbus;
(3) happar `transaction', happinant- `rich' < *H3ep-, Latin opus;
(4) hastai `bone(s)' < *H3est(H2)oi, Gr. ostéon;
(5) hark- `perish' < *H3erg-, Old Irish orgaid `slays';
(6) hawi- `sheep' < *H3ewi-, Latin ovis;
(7) haliya- `bow', halhaltumar `corner' < *H3el-, Gr. oléne `elbow'.
Konushevci