Re: Res: [tied] Etymology of Rome - h1rh1-em-/h1rh1-o:m-

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:23:13 +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>[The laryngeal] functioned as an obstruent consonant in PIE,
>so a resonant flanked by two *h1's was _syllabic_ in PIE.
>It was vocalised later in branch-specific ways.

What about Greek *h1rh1-yó: > *&1r&1yó: > eréo: (LIV, p.
251)? (and, as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago *h1nh3-m()n

> enoma/onoma).

If we'd had PIE h1-r.-h1-y-o:, that would have given
*(e)ra:o:, I think.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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