On 2006-08-17 13:14, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
> Please tell me also if Latin api:scor could reflect an initial *h1e-
> or not ?
Not *h1e-; that's for sure. One could ask whether Lat. ap- can reflect
PIE *h1p-. Laryngeals seem to have been lost before obstruents in Latin,
though the best examples I can think of involve laryngeals before *s, as
in 3pl. <sunt> (*h1sénti) and <stella> (*h2ster-). Nevertheless, Latin
often shows /a/ as a zero-grade substitute or "shwa secundum", an
anaptyctic vowel filling a morphological vowel slot to break up a
hard-to-syllabify consonant cluster, so at least in theory the
development *h1p- --> *h1&p- > ap- is thinkable, especially in the
verbal adjective <aptus> if from *h1p-tó-; this form may have influenced
the rest of the paradigm.
Piotr