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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr GÄ
siorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:
> But there are words with the very same structure as your putative
> *h1romh1-áh2, both in Greek and in Latin, e.g. Lat. mola < *molh2-
> ah2.
I agree, *molh2-ah2 is similar.
Even 'before it', my first example was the supposed *h1remh-us >
Remus
But, what if, Roma as 'the city of Romulus' (that appeared only at
753BC) is a later derived word from Ro:mulus ...as BucureSti is in
relation with Bucur and Tomis is in relation with the queen Tomiris)
So maybe the last question is : could we find a reason of a
supposed possible compensatory lengthening of *h1romh-u-lo-
s /h1rom.hu.los/?
Seems also that Remus (if > *h1remh-us) 'the quite one, the
isolated one' was the 'First Brother in the Family' viewing that
*h1romh-u-lo-s (> Ro:mulus) would be only 'a derivation of it'...that
shows us also a more direct reason to explain his end...
> Ro:mulus is rather clearly *ro:m-e-lo-, an *-elo- derivative of
> Ro:ma
> Piotr
But as I said, if Ro:mulus existed before Rome, like Bucur before
BucureSti, maybe Rome 'being the city of Ro:mulus' was derived based
on his name.
Regarding *ro:m-e-lo-, could we have ablaut-forms if we have the -e-
(like in *ro:m-e-lo-) or the ablaut cannot appear when -e- is present?
Marius