>I have a question about
>Umbrian comohota = Latin offerta
>This word is supposed to be from root *meu
>Latin mov-ere and Lituanian mauti.
>What does this -h- in como-h-ota stand for ?
The process in Umbrian should be:
*move-to > *mov-to > *mouto > mo:to
with regular syncope, then regular change of -ou- to -o:-.
Umbrian spelling is, as one writer puts it, "as diverse as possible.
Various spellings of the same sound are used, sometimes wholly
promiscuously." The sound /h/ was very weak, if not absent, in Umbrian, and
is commonly used as a sign of hiatus. This is in line with Rick
McCallister's suggestion. The trouble is, this word should have no hiatus,
merely a single long vowel.
Perhaps we can guess it is merely an aberrant spelling.
Peter