From: Rick McCallister
Message: 48314
Date: 2007-04-15
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Sean Whalen__________________________________________________
> <stlatos@...> wrote:
>
> > First, I think it's most likely that apis is
> from
> > *xakYobhi: 'sharp bee = stinging species of bee'
> and
> > Exon's Law deletes the *o creating a new
> combination
> > of consonants (among others):
>
> Also:
>
> There was probably a Pre-Latin compound formed
> from *mortwo+ 'dead' and *bhuwo+ 'be(com)ing' >
> with 'becoming dead' > 'sick(ening)' > 'sickness'
>
> mortwebhuwos
> mortwephuwos
> mortwefuwos
> mortwfuwos
> mortfuwos
> morfuwos
> morvuwos
> morbuwos
> morbwos
> morbos
> morbus
>
> Ch > -voice
> Ch > fric.
>
> # V(V)-V-V-(V)V # > # V(V)-0-V-(V)V #
>
> tf>?
> w>0/C_C
> t>0/C_C
>
> u>0/C_w?
> w>0/P_
>
> etc.
>
>
> as *bhuxwó+ > *bhuwo+ > super-bus
>
>
>