Is ph3 > b a PIE tranformation or it appears independently in
different languages?
As an example we have
*h2eph3-o-l- > Celtic *ablu => Old Irish ubull
*h2ph3-l-o- > Slavic *jabl&k& => OCS abl&ko
see also
*h2ep-h3on- 'river'
Question: could somebody help me with the meaning of the suffix *-
h3on ? Also if it can be decomposed in h3o-n- or not
I'm especially interested related to a derivation of Romanian abur
Alb avull => as *h2ep-h3o- + *-ulo. Hamp's n.bh-lo > Dacian *abula
cannot explains why the intervocalic b is preserved in Romanian...
Note: also ph3 > b 'is available' for Dacian also if kinuboila
translation is 'dog's apple'
http://members.tripod.com/~Groznijat/thrac/thrac_3.html
"7. dinupula (sinupyla) `wild pumpkin' (Pseudoap.). Opposite to the
Dacian name of this plant kinuboila (Dioskur.) Pseudoapuleus noted
that the Besses call it dinupula or sinupyla, the latter
reconstructed from the text "Bessi nupyla" instead of "Bessi (si)
nupyla".[...] Lith. ~sùn-obuolas with the same meaning."
Thansk a lot,
Marius