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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > How would you analyse Sanskrit 'ambu' "water"?
>
> I don't know. The root *nebH- 'moisten' occurs in the pan-IE -es-

stem

> *nebHos 'cloud, mist, sky', in *n.bH-ró- 'cloud, rain' (Lat. imber,

RV

> abHrá-, LAv. aBra-, etc.), and in other derivatives including LAv.
> napta- 'moist, wet', but <ambu-> doesn't match this word-family. It
> doesn't seem to be related to the *h2ap- etymon either. It's a
> relatively late word (MBh.), perhaps from a non-IE substrate.
>

And if so, it's worryingly similar to both *xap- and *n.bh-
(reconstructed from *m.bh- ?)


Torsten