Re: [tied] Re: H1

Chantraine cites a cypriot form laos with no digamma

and rejects the preform *law- : preform should be *l_H2-

Watkins says that Welsh llech is "obscure"

although he connect llech with a root leH1-

Are Irish forms from *li:kk- and *lekk- ?

What wrong with connecting Irish forms with Welsh llech

from a phonetic viewpoint ?

I don't understand why this Welsh form should be labelled "obscure".

----- Original Message -----

From: Brian M. Scott

To: stlatos

Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 5:06 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] Re: H1

At 3:52:14 PM on Friday, August 24, 2007, stlatos wrote:

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

>> I noticed some words in Celtic where the laryngeal H1
>> seems to be explicitly kept as -ch-

[...]

>> Welsh
>> llech stone from l_H1

> Irish liag

The earliest form of the nom. sing. is <lie> (gen. sing.
<liac(c)>, acc. dat. sing. and nom. pl. <lieic>, acc. pl.
<lec(c)a>. The noun is masculine; MWelsh <llech> is
feminine. OIr fem. <lecc> 'a slab, a flat stone' is clearly
the better match with the Welsh.

> which may be connected to the Greek diminutive la^igx if
> from something like *Lew-n,-kos / *Law-n,-kos.

Pokorny does in fact relate OIr <li:e> (later <lía>) to Gk.
<lâas>.

Brian