Re: [tied] *eH3k'u- 'swift; accipiter, doe, wind, hawk'

On 4/5/06, Mate Kapović <mkapovic@...> wrote:

> On Uto, travanj 4, 2006 11:58 pm, Abdullah Konushevci reče:
> > *o:k'u- `swift'. Oldest form *eH3k'u-
>
> There's also a possibility that the oldest form is indeed *Ho:k'u- if one
> would want to link this root to *h1ek'wos. The "horse" should thus be "a
> swift animal". If mouse is a stealer and wolf a bad animal, this shouldn't
> be impossible. However, I would also rather reconstruct *Heh3k'u-
> probably...
>
> Mate

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Yes, you are right. Such assumption was made as well by Watkins:
*ek'wo- probably to be segmented *ek'w-o, a suffixed form akin to the
lengthened o-grade adjective *o:k'u-.


Konushevci