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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
<miguelc@...> wrote:
> If Skt. ra:man "peace, quiet" is from *romen-, that would
> also indicate an anit.-root: in a set.-root *romHen- the
> /o/, in a closed syllable, would have been short.
>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> miguelc@...
>
But Skt. ra:man is not <<an o-grade *h1rom-en-
and even is not ended, at all, with -en>>
So all your argumentation for the absence of the laryngeal in h1remh-
based on Sanskrit ra:man is wrong.
Skt. ra:man is a zero-grade *h1rmh-men- and is ended with the suffix -
-men- (that has sense also sematically for an word like 'peace' : <<X-
men>> <=> <<having as its main/single property the X >> )
In addition, Skt. ra:man < *h1rmh-men- is really an argument for the
presence of the laryngeal, otherwise we will have not have, at all,
the long a:
See also:
*snh2-ti 'obtaining' < Skt. sa:tí
or *h2nh2-ti 'aquatic bird' < Skt. a:tí
so *h1rmh-men > *HraH.man > ra:man (after the lost of laryngeal)
Marius