Re: [tied] Re: *-tro-/*-tlo-

On 2007-06-26 20:01, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen wrote:

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

>> *leukY-xY-dó+ '(thing) being bright' >
>> lu:cidus 'bright', OE li:getu 'lightning'
>>
>> *xalbh-xY-dó+ 'being white' >
>> Lat albidus 'white', PGer *albitaz > ON elptr, OHG albiz 'swan'
>
> This looks like a fine and unexpected example of *th > Germanic /t/
> as assumed by Stang and Dal. The common derivation would indeed be
> *H2albhe-H1-to- > *H2albhetho-.

How would you interpret Slavic *olboNdI (with an acute first syllable)?

Piotr