Re: Reconstructed root for 'vapor, heat'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
> <akonushevci@> wrote:
> >
> > Reconstructed root form for `vapor', with an uncertain assumption, is
> > *kwep- `to smoke, cook, move violently, be agitated emotionally'
> > (Pokorny kewHp- 596, Watkins kwe:p- 45) and according to "An
> > Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Indo-European Language', revised
> > version of "Indogermanisches EtymologischesWörterbuch" by Pokorny is
> > *we:p-/wH1p- (*swekW-) `to blow, to soar'
>
> Why the H(1)? If it's because of Balto-Slavic evidence, then I
> don't think the reconstructions take enough factors into account.

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If you have in mind Sr-Cr kipjeti 'to boil, overflow', Latv ku^pe^t
'smoke, steam', then reconstructed IE root by Derksen is *kw|H2up-,
so I agree that Balto-Slavic evidence didn't proves that we have to
deal with *H1. But in the case of *kw|H2up- we should look like in
seconde theme of first one *kw|uH2p-.

Konushevci