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

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
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Subject: Re: [tied] Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *gWiH3w-


> On 2008-02-11 21:41, Patrick Ryan wrote:
>
> > If you have the sequence -*e:H2, and the *H2 neither colors nor
> > lengthened the vowel, hod did *e: get to be long in the first place?
>
> There were underlyingly long vowels as well as a number of
> productive vowel-lengthening processes in PIE, long before the loss of
> laryngeals (which took place after the disintegration of the
> protolanguage). LIV (Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben) lists more
> than 30 acrostatic "Narten roots" (with *e:/*e ablaut in the present
> tense). There are long-vowelled sigmatic formations such as *g^ne:h3-s-
> or the familiar sigmatic aorist (*pré:k^-s-t/*prék^-s-n.t), and
> "Szemerényi lengthening" in *p&2té:r, *népo:ts, etc.
>
> Piotr


In the word *la:u-, 'booty', would you judge the vowel underlyingly long?


Patrick