Re: Again with the PIE homeland thing- RE: *(s)teuros

The Yahoo Mail button "save as a draft" started sending instead for
no discernable reason. Ignore repeated messages: *swepn.os.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen <elme@...> wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@> wrote:
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> > Is there any specific reason you reconstruct *stew(&)-ro-?
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> It's based on Ved. sthávira-, although I fail to understand the full
> allomorphy. I bracket the laryngeal because it may have been lost in
> the particular kind of IE from which Sem. *Tawr- was borrowed.

I've already discussed my derivation for sthávira-. More
specifically, why would it have been lost in PIE? Is your
reconstruction for a variety of dialects (some of them losing it as
the ancestors of Baltic, Iranian, Germanic)? Is there any reason for
a vowel instead of a syllabic C at this time?