From: Rick McCallister
Message: 52125
Date: 2008-01-31
> On 2008-01-30 23:34, fournet.arnaud wrote:____________________________________________________________________________________
>
> > I suppose -H- in the structure *gh_l-H-to is
> explained by tonal features
> > in balto-slavic
>
> Not just that; *g^Hélh3-to- corresponds exactly to
> Skt. hárita-, a
> 'yellow/green/fallow' colour term. Of course also
> the pan-Indo-Iranian
> word for 'gold', Skt. híran.ya-, Av. zaraniia-,
> OPer. daraniya, Oss.
> zærin-, is related and requires a laryngeal, as does
> the Skt.
> compositional form <híri-> 'golden' (*g^Hl.h3i-)
>
> > but
> > which H3 particularly ?
>
> You mean, why *h3? First and foremost, Gk. kHlo:rós
> < *g^Hl.h3-ró-.
> Secondly, the otherwise very rare *-wo- suffix (as
> in Lat. helvus 'bay',
> Lith. z^e~lvas 'greenish', Gmc. *Gelwa- 'yellow') is
> for some reason
> frequent after the third laryngeal. There seems to
> be some poorly
> understood allomorphy rule at work in those *-wo-
> derivatives, but they
> strongly suggest a root-final *h3 nevertheless.
>
> Piotr
>
>