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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:
>
> On 2006-01-13 23:08, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> > 2. *negWh-ro 'a dark person/object etc..' (Latin niger)
> > ( maybe Armenian nerk, nerkoy too.)
>
> This can't be right. *negHh-ro-s would have given Lat. *neber, not
> <niger>. Cf. *dHegWH-ri- > febris.
>
> Piotr
>
I know, Piotr.
But in the initial position Latin gWHr- > gr-
Next, this medial Lat. *-gWHr- > Lat *br is based Only on 2 examples
First: '*dHegWH-ri- > febris' and another one that I don't remember
now but I will check in the evening at home.
Marius
P>S> By the way (if the above etymology is the right one) see the
function of -r- in Febris if is similar-to *dHegWH- or not (and if
febris has or not 'a different nature' than *dHegWH-