From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 52135
Date: 2008-02-01
> the Skt.======
> compositional form <híri-> 'golden' (*g^Hl.h3i-)
> 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