From: stlatos
Message: 49249
Date: 2007-07-01
> On 2007-06-26 21:53, stlatos wrote:I don't think so. It seems like a simple:
>
> > These and similar words show both *gYhel-xW-t.o+
> and *gYhl,xW-t.o+
> > so I don't think starting with 0-grade explains
> this change.
> I suspect some kind of vr.ddhi
> transformation of an
> inherited nil grade within Balto-Slavic. Cf. Lith.
> z^énklas 'sign' for
> *g^n(o)h3-tlo- (Skt. jn~á:tra- 'intellectual
> faculty'), with the vowel
> inserted in the wrong slot.