Re: Res: [tied] Etymology of Rome - h1romh-eh2 again

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 47777
Date: 2007-03-10

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

> "BUT next the lost of the laryngeal trigerred the change of the
> syllable structures too" is True.

No. There are no examples of such a change anywhere in IE. The Greek
change you quoted shows only that compensatory lengthening via
resyllabification is POSSIBLE, not that it's INEVITABLE. Greek has
many words derived from *CVRH-V-, and not a single one of them shows a
lengthened reflex of the root vowel. Cf. bora:, tome:, tómos <
*gWorh3-áh2, *tomh1-áh2, *tómh1-o-s, etc. Nor is such a lengthening
attested in Latin, cf. genus < *g^énh1-os, -vorus < *gWorh3-ó-, domus
< *dómh2-o-, etc.