Re: [tied] Helios

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> On 2006-08-27 06:25, stlatos wrote:
>
> > I said "original" to mean just that: PIE *ul
> not ul from *l., etc.
> > There is nothing impossible about my explanation.
> The change of l>L
> > in specific environments in different IE languages
> is necessary.
>
> PIE *CulC? The normal phonetic realisation of
> *//sh2wl-n// would have
> been *swl.n- > *swuln- > PGmc. *suln-, completely
> merging with the
> reflex of *sl.n-, just as *k^wn.tó- gives *xunða-.

All of that is wrong. I don't want to get on
another tangent so I'll say: I already said there was
metathesis in 'sun', if you don't believe *sxulyos
existed then just assume *suxlyos > *su:lyas and a new
adj. was formed *su:lna- with delengthening in that
environment.


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