From: etherman23
Message: 39865
Date: 2005-09-02
> On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 22:22:18 +0000, etherman23How do you explain the Latin voiced plosive?
> <etherman23@...> wrote:
>
> >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, glen gordon <glengordon01@...> wrote:
> >>
> >> Etherman23:
> >> > Don't you find it just a little bit too coincidental
> >> > that there's a reconstructable particle *H2ebhi?
> >>
> >> Shouldn't that be *h1ebHi with *h1? You're basing this
> >> on the Anatolian locatives like Lycian /ebi-/, right?
> >
> >I just double checked and it's actually H3ebhi, as in Lat. ob.
>
> Latin ob is likely from *(h1)op(i) ~ *(h1)epi.