[tied] Re: Question on PIE Root h2ep- 'to grab'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2006-08-16 14:22, Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
>
> > 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/.
>
> _Vocalised_ *h1- (i.e. *&1) yields Hitt. a-, as in asanzi 'they

are'.

> The point here is that _consonantal_ *h1 is lost in Hittite, so

<epzi,

> appanzi> appear to reflect *h1ep-ti, *&1p-ónti (for *h1p-énti).

Hitt <e>

> would not exclude a preceding *h2 if we were dealing with a Narten-

type

> root like *h2e:p-/*h2ap- (long *e: wasn't coloured by *h2), but in

that

> case the initial *h2 would have been preserved.
>
> Piotr
>

Thanks, Piotr.

Please tell me also if Latin api:scor could reflect an initial *h1e-
or not ?

Thanks, again.
marius