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-).

It's not strange if we are dealing with a laryngeal...

< Jens's

> O-fix would fit here: *O-h1k^-ú- > *oh1k^ú- would explain the puzzling
> unaccented *o:,

Yes, that seems right.

<its apophonic stability, and the relation of the

> adjective to *h1ék^-w-o-

If I get you right, you think that the root is *h1ek'u-/h1k'u which is
made into *oh1k'ú- via Jens's o-infix? Hm well, there's a nice idea. That
seems like an elegant way to solve the problem of the final accent, the
acute in Slavic and the connection with the "horse" word. Very nice...

Mate