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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> How would you explain Dutch naam "name", noemen "call, name"?
The PGermanic *no:mijanan is simply the result of
VNn>VVN
as in *kano:n *kann+ > *xano:N *xo:n+ 'cock, chicken'
With that it seems most likely to me that there was no long V (or
VH) in PIE. It probably wasn't even a *-mn stem originally, just
contaminated due to the large number of them (some with lex.
similarities).