Re: Brugmann's Law

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From: Rick McCallister

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Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 2:46 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Brugmann's Law

 
> Those words present interesting comparative problems
> and certainly
> deserve to be discussed; in particular the exact
> relation of Gk. oípHo:
> (and zépHuros) to *jebati and Skt. yábHati _has_
> been much discussed
> (however, without reaching firm conclusions) . There
> is a brief
> discussion of these issues in Beekes's Greek
> dictionary in the relevant
> entries.
>
> Piotr
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The root shows *z

which sometimes surfaces as H2 or y in PIE

Cf. Arabic zubb

 

And I will add Heph-aistos to the set of words < *super-Z**B

The guy who had some trouble with Aphrodite...

 

Arnaud

 

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