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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:
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> Could somebody explain me why Beekes says 'On wrong hypotheses':
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> " On wrong hypotheses s. W.-Hofmann s. aboleo:, de:leo: and volnus;"
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> making reference too Greek: ollumi < *olnumi (< *olne:mi < *h3.l-n-eh1-
> mi)
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> Thanks,
> Marius
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According to Watkins, Latin ab-ole:re 'to retard the growth of,
abolish' is derived from suffixed (causative) form *ol-eye- of the
root *al- 'to nourish, grow', so pre-form was *H2el- > *al-. (Pokorny
2.al-26.)
According to Mallory-Adams the root is *H3elH1- 'to destroy', based as
well on Hit hulla:(i)- 'combat, fight'.
I wonder could also Alb sh-part-alloj 'smash, crush, hammer, rout,
literally - in equally destroying form, thoroughly destroyed' be a
good candidate, with variant from partall(e) 'dead bones; old and
worthless odds and ends: old junk', as verb partall-is = shpartalloj,
if part- is old locative of *parë-/palë- 'pair' or variant form of
*per-/port- `forward, early, before, against, at'.
Much more interesting is Alb hall `trouble, disappointment, sorrow'
from probably *H1ol-no with denominative hall-a-kat `disperse,
scatter, throw about', deverbative hallakamë `disorder, mess,
disturbance, alarm' with regular preserving of *h1 as /h/.
So, despite the fact that *H3el- was attested in Hittite, I think that
also *H1ol- or *H1/H3el- is also possible as reconstructed form.
Konushevci