On 2006-09-24 18:58, tgpedersen wrote:
> Are you sure that's the same h2, and that it's not a factitive
> *demn-áx-ti?
The root contains a final *h2, cf. Skt. pp. da:ntá-, RV damitár-
'tamer', Gk. (á-)dme:tos, dme:té:r, pan-damáto:r, etc. If we had an *h2
factitive here, derived from a verbal adjective in *-nó-, the first *h2
would not have disappeared and the verb would be something like
**dm.h2-nah2-je/o-, not *dm.náh2-/*dm.nh2-'.
Piotr