Re: [tied] Syllabic (was: Etymology of Rome - h1rh1-em-/h1rh1-o:m-)

On 2007-03-19 10:55, stlatos wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>> On 2007-03-16 13:02, Sean Whalen wrote:
>
>>> I'd be very hesitant to reconstruct a word with two
>>> x's in a row based on apparent reflexes in one branch.
>> Not in a row. They are separated by a vowel and belong to differnt
>> members of a compound in my analysis.
>
> What compound? Would this be the source of Lith. gerve: also?

Yes. My reconstruction id *gerh2o-h2wi-(o-), where the second element is
the nil-grade of the PIE 'bird' word. In Baltic, we have a reflex of
*gerh2oh2wi-ah2 with the haplological simplification of the medial
syllables yielding *gerh2wi-ah2 > *ge:rwia: > Lith. gérve:, Latv.
dze~rve, OPr. gerwe. In Slavic the full form is retain, giving
*z^eravjI. In pre-Latin, *geroh2wi- > *gero:wi- > *gro:wi-, losing its
stem-forming *-i- like the 'egg' word (*o:wi-om > o:vum) and ultimately
becoming *gro:us > gru:s.

Piotr