Re: Indo-European /a/

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

> elmeras2000 wrote:
>
> > Recte faba. Collective corresponding to Sl. bobU.
>
> There are quite a few puzzling lexical correspondences connecting

Slavic

> with Italic -- things like Lat. secu:ris, Slavic sekyra 'axe', or

Lat.

> lu:na, Slavic *luna < *louksnah2 (with reference to the moon).

They

> might point to prehistoric contacts somewhere in Central Europe.
> *bHabHo-/*bHabHah2 looks like one of those.
>
> > Strange
> > relationship to Gk. phákos, Alb. bathë, even stranger to Germ.
> > *bauno: .
>
> *bauno: could easily result from early dissimilatory lenition of a
> bilabial fricative in *BaBna: < *bHabH-nah2, making the

relationship

> less strange (though leaving the *n unexplained). The "Balkan"

variant

> *bHak^o-/*bHak^ah2 remains fully strange, of course.
>

-bÓnÒ castor-oil bean, plant


from
http://www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/Guthrie.html

believe it or not.


Torsten