Re: [tied] PIE *HRHV > Pre-Latin HRVH > Latin RV: (*h1rh1-om-eh2 >

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

>
> On 2007-03-19 10:35, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> >
> > Well the Lithuanian forms point to a laryngeal:
> > -I'm in a more solid ground that you here...
>
> What the Baltic forms point to beyond reasonable doubt is a long *a:

in

> the root. Only if you dogmatically believe (with Lubotsky) that PIE

had

> no fundamental *a, do you have to reconstruct Hnah2s- in the strong
> cases and the embarrassing monstrosity *Hnh2as- in the accusative

sg.;

> Piotr
>

One of the argument for a laryngeal inside these "a"-roots (Beekes,
Lubotsky etc...), is that the acute intonation in Lith. points to a
laryngeal:

a) Lith. sólymas 'brine' points to a laryngeal: *seh2-l-.
b) Lith. nósis points to a laryngeal: *neh2-s-.

Marius