From: mkapovic@...
Message: 35160
Date: 2004-11-21
>Yeah, of course, I meant Latvian gri~va... Slavic is also a. p. a
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, mkapovic@... wrote:
>> but how can you explain that PIE
>> *gWriHwéh2 is a. p. 1 in Lithuanian (a. p. a in Slavic) and that PIE
>> *gWih3wós is a. p. 3 in Lith. (a. p. c in Slavic)?
>
> Just for the record: what do you mean by the Lithuanian reflex of
> *gWriHwéh2? I'm not aware of a suitable appellative, though there's a
> river-name Gryvŕ (a. p. 3 according to the latest (2002) edition of
> Dictionary of Lithuanian Toponymics) in S^iauliai district (close to
> the Latvian border). I guess you actually meant Latv. gri~va 'mouth
> (of a river), delta', indeed pointing to a barytone/immobile (rather
> than +grîva, which would point to an oxytone/mobile).