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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> whetex_lewx wrote:
> > Why *h3kW-bHr-u- is expressed as h3 but not as h2? In Lithuanian
h3
> > mutates as -uo-, but this reconstructed h3kw- is related to akis
> > (eye) (short -a- vowel).
> >
> > Latin acies - of the eye? Sanscrit ak-; Latvian acis, Armenian
aku
> > and etc... Couldn't be eye in PIE not h3kw-, but akw- (short a
> > sound, which became o in Latin and relicts of short -a- are
visible
> > only in secondary Latin forms?
>
> Greek has an "o" too, Germanic speak for an "o" as well, Latin
presents too
> an "o", Slavic has an "o" as well.
> Apparently hard to consider the "a" there.
>
> Alex
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Latin has the same ending (as Lithuanian) with short -a-: -as
(brevit-as, maiest-as...). These are rare, but... Greek has -os
instead Lith. -as, also look, Latin relict - AC-I-ES, i specified it
in Dictionary: of the eye, [a piercing look or keen vision];
sometimes [the pupil of the eye, or the eye itself]. Just some
Germanic languages have -o-, but some, like English, German or
Gothic have diphthongs (ai, au). Every short Lith. a in Greek are
changed by o, so what was first a ---> o, or o ---> a?
Tochar. B has ek-i-, short vowel, also one of forms AKSI
In Lith. dialects and some cases of modern language a becomes e
before soft consonant. Consonants are softed before front vowel
(like e, e:, e(n), e^, i, i(n), y). Also e becomes a before hard
consonants.
I believe, that Hittitic was ak- too and there weren't any
laringeals. But I don't find dictionary. Or maybe it was hak-, but i
find no sence to state that it was -o.
Slavic (I'll compare with Russian) has many changes: e ---> ie, i-->
ya, ei --> ie, al --> olo, ar ---> oro, a --> ie, e --> yo, a --->
o, e ---> o, an ---> a:, un ---> u: and etc... I think Slavic system
of vowels shouldn't be using in linguistics.