Re: Brugmann's Law

On Ned, siječanj 20, 2008 4:47 am, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> On 2008-01-20 04:20, Rick McCallister wrote:
>
>> Good question. If it's a native word, would it be bh?
>
> *(s)leh1b- 'be weak, faint'. Cf. Gmc. *sle:p-i/a- 'sleep' and Slavic
> slabU 'weak'. *(s)l&1b-o:s > labo:r (*'exhaustion' > 'hard work'). The
> root is one of the few well attested ones with *b.

Why lab- from *lh1b- in Latin? It should be la:b-...

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