Re: [tied] PIE 'brow'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:

> On 04-11-09 14:41, 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).
>
> That's as it should be. There's no length if the laryngeal is
> prevocalic: *h3o- > (short) *o- > PBS *a- > Baltic a-, Slavic o- .
>
> > Latin acies - of the eye?
>
> Unrelated. This one is from *h2ak^-(ro-) 'sharp, pointed', hence,
> figuratively, 'piercing, acute, keen'.
>

let's forget o for short time. So, *h2ak^-(ro-) is related to Lith.
as^tr-us

what could you say about -t

It's also in such adjectives like aitrus (bitter), kantrus (patient)
(kente:^ti (to suffer)), darbs^tus (diligent) (dirbti (to work)),
kartus (bitter) (karsti (to be bittering more and more))...

> > *h3bHruh-; bHruh- may be related to Lithuanian bru:ks^nys (line,
> > German strich), brez^ti (to line, German zeichnen, ritzen). Also
>
> This is a heterogeneous collection of lookalike words, not a

cognate set.

Edge like edge of skull, and bruks^nys like strich of (above) eye,
ak-i-bruks^n-is is logically right form, this question will be
adjudicatin with Sergei, so let's balance all chances ;)