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

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 47852
Date: 2007-03-14

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:51:22 -0000, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<akonushevci@...> wrote:

>According to Winter's rule: "Metathesis occured only when no vowel
>preceded the laryngeal, when laryngeal did not stand in initial
>position..., and when the semivowel was at least originally followed
>by a consonant..."
>The best example is *peH2w- (theme I) and *pH2ew- (theme II) with
>zero-grade form *puH2- and *pH2u-.

The "fire"-word, I presume.

>According to Winter, the regular sequence *wH (*yH) was metathesized
>to *wH (*yH0) (Lindeman ILTH, pp. 108-111).

You mean "According to Winter, the regular sequence *Hw
(*Hy) was metathesized to *wH (*yH) (Lindeman ILTH, pp.
108-111)."?


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