[tied] Re: Saussure laryngeal loss

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

>
> The Latin word collina "hill" < kolH1-na
> is (very) troublesome.
> Lituanian kalna < kolH-na (intonation and verb kél-ti prove H)
> Grec kolo:nos
>
> Armenian holm "wind" from HonH1-m is ok.
>
> Personally, I think that Saussure's Law does not apply to LAtin.
> I believe Saussure's LAw is a major eastern isogloss,
> from which Latin and maybe Celtic are excluded.
>
> I am not good enough in Celtic to provide counter examples from Celtic.

It may not even be IE
Dansk Etymologisk Ordbog
kol c. (dial.) "rounded hill", ODa. kol "top of head", Nw. koll "top,
tuft of hair; large hill, knoll, mountain top", Sw. dial. koll "upper
part of head", ON kollr "(bald) head; rounded top", MLG kol, kolle
"head"; ... a sideform is kulle

kulle c. 1 "top of head", 2 "rounded hill; rounded mountain", Nw.
kolle, Sw. kulle


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