Re: [tied] Re: Latin barba in disaccord with Grimm's Law?

--- Sean Whalen <stlatos@...> wrote:

>
>
> --- Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:17:41 -0700 (PDT), Sean
> > Whalen
> > <stlatos@...> wrote:
>
> > > Most of these examples of o-derounding are
> found
> > in
> > >Andrew Sihler's _New Comparative Grammar of Greek
> > and
> > >Latin" and more can be found there (though I
> don't
> > >think he gets everything concerning this
> correct).
> >
> > Well, none of the examples below are given by
> Sihler
> > as
> > examples of o-derounding, which is why I asked.
>
> Check in Section 71.1 for

I've looked through the archives and found more
discussion about this.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/36991?threaded=1&var=1&p=24

The relevant portions are:

> Lat. far and faba are not very conviencing in

proving an IE *a since in

> Latin a/o difference is not very stabile after

labials, that is *o tends

> to change to /a/ (mare, ca:seus, canis, parie:s,

margo: etc.), cf.

> Schrijver 1991.
>
> Mate

> Dear Mate,
>
> Could you please give the complete title of the work

you identify as

> "Schrijver 1991"? I would most like to read it, if

it is available

> somewhere.
>
> Andrew Jarrette

Sure, it's:
Peter Schrijver, The Reflexes of the
Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in
Latin. Leiden Studies in Indo-European 2.
Amsterdam/Atlanta (Rodopi) 1991,
xl + 616 pp.

Mate



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