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

On Sri, travanj 5, 2006 11:54 am, Abdullah Konushevci reče:

> 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
> ************
> 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-.

However, Slavic *jástreNbU/i, with an acute on the first syllable, would
point to the laryngeal rather than to the long grade (of course, Jens
would not agree probably :)).

Mate