Re: Question on PIE Root h2ep- 'to grab'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<akonushevci@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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
> ************
> *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
>

Thanks, Abudullah.

However we still have:

Latin api:scor indicating 'directly' h2ep-(or there is also 'an
aditional' Latin Rule PIE *h1e- > Latin a- that I'm not aware about?)

and also

Albanian jap (considered with an analogical epetenthic 'j' like in
jam) indicating also h2ep-

It's also true that an o-grade h1op- will solved the Albanian
derivation...

Any, hint?

Marius