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

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 44140
Date: 2006-04-05

On 2006-04-05 12:04, Mate Kapović wrote:

> 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 :)).

Gk. o:kú-, Ved. a:s'ú- remained oxytones despite their long root
vocalism, which is strange (and unlike *h1wé(:)su-, Ved. vásu-). Jens's
O-fix would fit here: *O-h1k^-ú- > *oh1k^ú- would explain the puzzling
unaccented *o:, its apophonic stability, and the relation of the
adjective to *h1ék^-w-o- and compositional *&1k^-u(-i)- if that's what
we see in Lat. acu-pedius, acci-piter). The only problem is the isolated
character of *O-h1k^-ú-, since the O-fix is normally accompanied by
thematisation.

Piotr