--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> On 2007-02-14 11:43, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Piotr assumed a connection between *gWoh3w- "cow" and *gWem-/gWax-
> > "go; come"...
>
> Just for the record: I reconstruct the 'cow' word as *gWow-, without a
> laryngeal. My article about the connection has been accepted for
> publication but the process is slow and will take another ten months
> or so.
Z^elayu vam uspexov is the closest I can get to Polish, I'm afraid.
Under the circumstances, why does anyone want to become a linguist ;-)
A small point: you've been taken hostage by your own notation, where
you consistently write *-ah2 etc, with the vowel already colored by
the laryngeal, but *-em; if you'd assume h2 preserves, rather than
creates the /a/ the root would be *gWam-/*gWax-, or traditionally,
*gWem-/*gWex- which means the alternating suffix is *-m/*-x, not
*-em/*-ax, which is close to *-n,W/*-xW and the reduplication you
argue for.
Torsten