From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 37099
Date: 2005-04-12
About Ant:*morweH2 [formiga]
Greek myrme:x,Myrmidon
Latin formica[*mormica<morvica]
Sanskrit vamra[*marva], valmika[varmika <marvika]
Avestan maoirish
Old Slavic mravi-
ON myrr
Old Irish muirb
Armenian mrjiwn
*morweH2- is the usual reconstruction. I'm thinking about an alternative view:
*morgWm-
*mr.gWmeH2- > murgm- > myrme:x
*mrgWmH- > formica
*morgW-> mrjiwn
Sean Whalen <stlatos@...> wrote:
--- "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
> Let me pick three words as example: nyx, onyx, lykos
>
> IE *n.kWt- > *nukt- > Greek nyx (nykt-) "night"
> IE *H3o-n.gWH- > *o-nugH- > Greek onyx (onykh-)
> "nail"
> IE *wl.kWos > *wluko- > Greek lykos "wolf"
> My question is:
> These shifts represent a regular trend in IE>Greek
> (sonant+labiovelar > sonant+u+velar) or may be loans
> from another IE language (but very close to Greek)
Are these your own reconstructions? The oldest
posited forms above create misleading conclusions. I
think it goes more like this:
nok^t-
nokt-
nukt-
nykt-
H3nogWh-
H3.nogWh-
onogWh-
onogh-
onugh-
onukh-
onykh-
H1ulkWo-
ulkWo-
lukWo-
luko-
lyko-
That is, there's only metathesis in lukos, but not the
kind you show. The u in the other words comes from
rounding/raising of *o between certain consonants
(usually sonorant and/or round, as in onyma, gymnos-).
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