[tied] Re: *-pn/m-/-b(h)n/m- > Alb. /m/

From: tgpedersen
Message: 42487
Date: 2005-12-13

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:
>
> alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> > b) Do you now other extension in -no in other languages added
to
> > the PIE root h2ep- 'water ?
> > Note: The PIE suffix *-no represents at its origins
deverbative
> > adjectives: so <verb + -no> (but it's true also that it was
later
> > extended to other type of nouns too,so from here my question)
>
> Not in the "river" word, which contains the Hoffmann "suffix": *-
h3on-:
> *h2ap-h3o:n > *h2abh3o:n, with the thematic derivative *h2ab(h3)no-
>
> *abno-.


How would you analyse Sanskrit 'ambu' "water"?


Torsten