Path [was: Re: Gypsies again]

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...>
wrote:

> > Is Gk. _pateo:_ a denominative from _patos_, or is it from an IE
> > form *pnt(x)éh-? If from the latter, and the IE form did
> > have /x/, wouldn't we expect *_patao:_?
>
> It's denominative.

Okay, so it must have been coined after the laryngeal was lost.
Otherwise, the form would have been *_patao:_.

> > It seems that InIr preserved the original "root noun" (see
> > below), which I would reconstruct as *péntoxs, not *pénto:xs --
> > if a full vowel was lengthened following a coda consonant and
> > *-s, a "syllabic laryngeal"
>
> There is no syllablic laryngeal after a vowel (and there is no
> lengthening if no consonant preceeds the -s).

I don't see where I said there is. For a laryngeal to be "syllabic",
it cannot follow a vowel.

- Rob