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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:
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>
> I need to ask you:
>
> The root *h2ep- 'to grab' is *h2ep- or *h1ep-
>
> Lubotsky proposed *h1ep- on Leiden (->Indo-Aryan) but I found *h2
> on 'all' other references
>
> Thanks,
> Marius
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*H2- or *H1- is not such hard to be distinctive, because for Hittite
words that start with /h/, linguists are sure that in this case we
have to deal with *H2-. Such case we have in *H1ag'- or *H2ag'-,
first proposed by Watkins, because Hittite cognate for "furrow" is
<akkala> and could be based as well with Alb. <hulli> `id.': Old
Irish Ogham < *og'-mo. So, much based form should be *H1ag-.
In case of *H2ep- or *H1ep- `to take, reach', Hittite cognate is
supposed to be hap(p)- with uncertain comparison with Greek
<opuio> `marry, to take to wife', but Puhlev preferse to connect
Hittite <hap(p)-> `joint, attach' < *H2ep-, allegedly preserved in
Latin aptus `joined'.
Because Lubotsky as Hittite cognate takes e-ip-zi 'to grab, catch'
and Latin co-e:pi:'to start, unertake', then his reconstruction
looks much plausible, for vocalized *H1 has as result /e/.
Konushevci