[tied] Re: Pretonic laryngeals in roots

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2007-03-16 00:54, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > I checked LIV, since that's what I have, and except for *h2neh3-
> > "tadeln", verbal roots of the form *HCVC- with cognates in Hittite
> > are all *HwVC-. They might as well be an exception to the proposal.
>
> You've missed *h2meh1- 'reap' (Hitt. hamesha-, hameshant- 'spring,
> summer'). Cf. also Hitt. suhmili- 'well-connected' vs. Ved. su:maya-
> 'well-shaped' < *(h1)su-h2mei-.

LIV, Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 1998, p. 249 *h2meh1
"mähen" doesn't mention any Hittite cognate.


Torsten