Re: [tied] Helios

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 45903
Date: 2006-08-30

On 2006-08-30 00:43, Joao S. Lopes wrote:

> Let me add to this discussion another word with a mysterious L-them:
>
> *megeH2- "big", *megeH2-l-, cf. Greek megas, megalo-, Celtic mag(a)lo-,
> Gothic mikils.

But this is a thematic suffix (*-lo-), cf. Gk. fem. megale:, m. gen.
megalou, pl. megaloi, etc., so *meg&2-lo- is not an l-stem.

Piotr