Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *gWiH3w-

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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 2:24 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *gWiH3w-


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> It's definitely mobile property. maybe all those years
> of being forcefed a bastardized form of Marx has made
> him shy away from economic explanations
>

Nor was he very enthusiastic about this one
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/49405
cf.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/36523

But what if the verb was really PIE *gWHe/-h2/-m/-w/, reduplicated
*gWegWHow, with Grassmann. When decomposed, one could get both *gWem- ->
come etc and *gWHe- -> go etc, cf
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/46820

Any comments, Piotr?


Torsten

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Where in H--- did the *H come from?????

Forget watching your P's and Q's, Torsten, your H's need your love far more.

I am going to address your question to Piotr if you do mind.

The word started out as *gWa-. When a glottal stop was added, it lengthened
and preserved the earliest vowel quality -> *gWa:- (*gWaH{2}-). Without
lengthening, the vowel reverted to the vowel of an stress-accented root
syllable -> *gWé- to which -*y could be added, producing *gWéy-, 'live';
rather than your decomposed answer, just add -*m to it and -> *gWem-.

Piotr wants to assume a third variant in -*w -? *gWew-; from my perspective,
the existence of this variant in Proto-Afrasian leads to a probability that
it existed in PIE, and so his case is strengthened.

What does Møller have to say about it? I am not being sarcastic.


Patrick

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