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

On Sri, travanj 5, 2006 3:09 pm, Piotr Gasiorowski reče:

> 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.

If I am not mistaken, the proposed analysis would also allow us to prove
that there really was an *h1- at the beginning of the word *h1ék'wos which
is normally just a structurally based presumption.

Mate