Re: Latin longus < *dlh1-ongh-o

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

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> Hello,
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> I saw some difficulties to link Latin & Germanic 'long' to the root
> for long: *delh1gh-o ; *dolh1gh-o ; *dlh1gh-o
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> The idea that I have seen is to consider the root to be only *delh1-
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> like: *delh1-gh-o ; *dolh1-gh-o ; *dlh1-gh-o
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> and in this case Latin & Germanic 'long' are derived as:
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> PIE *dlh1-ongh-o > [dl>l] > Latin longus

> My questions are:
> 1. what is the meaning of the root *delh1- in this case?

Well, Pokorny has it simply as 'long' (#333, pp196-7).

> 2. what is the meaning of the extension -gh- ? Do we have similar
> constructions?

It might be quite ancient - how sure are we that *dHelg (#389, p247)
'needle' and *dHelg / *dHelgH 'hit' (#390, ib.) do not have the same
root? I suppose the similarity of sound may have lead to a greater
similarity of meaning.

Richard.