Re: Question about uH

fournet.arnaud wrote:

> Thank you,
>
> I have another question about words :
> deti "child" and deva "girl"
> is <de-> from *dheH1- or from *dh-schwa-yod-
> or something else ?
> What is to be thought about that ?

*dHeh1-to-, etc. with *eh1 giving long *e: > Slavic e^ (in early Slavic,
a tense, rather open front vowel with a tendency towards
diphthongisation; it could be compared to the "ash" vowel in US
English). BTW, de^ti is plural, the actual singular being usually
something suppletive like *de^teN.

> Another question :
> In Pokorny's data (from Kiliaan)
> udder in Middle-Low-German is eur and N-eur, N-ur with #n- variant,
> what is the explanation for n- (een, ein ?) ?

I can't see these forms in Pokorny.

Piotr