From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 47985
Date: 2007-03-19
>*a:
> --- 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
> inPIE
> > the root. Only if you dogmatically believe (with Lubotsky) that
> hadstrong
> > no fundamental *a, do you have to reconstruct Hnah2s- in the
> > cases and the embarrassing monstrosity *Hnh2as- in the accusativeSorry: b) Lith. nósis < *hneh2-s-.
> 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
>