Re: [tied] The 'long' word [was: Short and long vowels]

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 6:53 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] The 'long' word [was: Short and long vowels]


> 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

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Patrick:

My analysis of this word supports Piotr's idea above.

Pre-PIE *dale:?-[gha-?a], PIE *delé:H-[ghaH-]; cognate with Egyptian dnj,
hold back, restrain, revet (by stretching across)'; and Sumerian dal,
'dividing line'. I have no great ideas on what the second element
contributes; accordingly, it is doubtful; *gha?- by itself should mean
'hanging'.

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