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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-
language@...> wrote:
> Yes, you are right, I do not understand.
>
> I thought we were discussing *g^hdhem-, 'earth' (*g^h-dem-).
> I thought the word in the original posting about pronunciation
difficulty ("dhghem") was a simple transposition error.
>
> What on Earth is your *d(h)ég^h-o:m above? I know no such word
for PIE.
You don't? Fair enough. The word for "earth" is Hitt. tekan, gen.
tagnas, which must represent a more original form of the paradigm
which was changed in the other branches by introduction of the
product of the cluster *d(h)g^h- as it had been in the locative, **d
(h)g^h-ém(-i) > IE *g^h{th}ém(-i) (Ved. ks.ámi). This is one of the
mainstays of the understanding of the "thorn" clusters in IE. It is
of course also one of the basic arguments for an Indo-Hittite model,
indicating as it does that Anatolian was the first branch to split
away from the IE unity. This is all classical knowledge by now.
Jens