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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
>
> Semitic is *gH-r-b "west, sunset".
>
> And Asia < asu "sunrise".
>
Møller actually hesitates between reconstructing
voridg. À-r-p = semit A-r-p (-> Assyrian erpu, etc)
and
voridg. Y.-r-P.- = semit. Y.-r-p (-> hebr. 3ara:Pæl)
Voridg-semit. À ->
gemeinsemit. A, arab. `, hebr. `
Voridg-semit. Y. ->
gemeinsemit. Y., arab. Y., hebr. 3(1), aram.,syr. 3
what the 3-like laryngeal symbol stands for,
I have no idea;
the Y. is as close as I can with ASCII to the symbol
he uses in the reconstruction.
Both À and Y. are placed with 6 others in tables of
"emphathische spirantische Lenes" and
"nicht emphatische Fortes", respectively;
since they are at the bottom and the column starts with
p and B., respectively, they must be uvular.
I chose to write both as A and Y. as H,
meaning "some laryngeal"
And on the development of Y. into PIE:
"
Im Anlaut Spiritus lenis; verwandelt ein vorhergehendes oder folgendes
idg. *e(:) (oder bereits voridg. *a(:)) in o(:); verbindet sich
inlautend mit vorhergehendem Selbstlauter zu dessen Länge (wobei für
*éY. idg. ó:, für dehnstufiges *e:Y. idg. õ: erscheint).
"
which means it must be h3.
Torsten