elmeras2000 wrote:
> I do not know
> what to make of Hittite daluki- 'long', dalukasti- 'length' from
> *dl.H1gh-V-.
Nor do I, or anyone else, for that matter. If I may share share a
personal suspicion with the list, the word looks as if it had had a
medial high vowel syncopated in some of the branches (cf. *dek^s(i)no-
etc. for 'right'), i.e. something like *dl.h1u/igHó- > *dl.h1gHó-
(dialectally). With so many consonants in it, it should be some sort of
compound, i.e. *dl.h1u/i-gHó-, but hang me if I can make any sense of
the *-gHo- part (*-gH(h1)o-?, -*h1go-??). The development of Gk.
dolikHos would at least be parallel to that of Gk. polú- < *pl.h1ú-, if
not quite clear.
Piotr