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

I am not sure I understand what you are saying.

Do you mean you are questioning whether or not such a root should br
reconstructed at all?

Or that the data dp not allow you to decide among the two possibilities?


Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
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Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *gWiH3w-


> On 2008-02-11 23:06, Patrick Ryan wrote:
>
> > In the word *la:u-, 'booty', would you judge the vowel underlyingly
> > long?
>
> There are some problems with both *la(:)u- and *lah2u- //leh2w-//. Skt.
> lotra- probably doesn't belong here at all, as it may be a mere byform
> of <loptra-> (with the same meaning) < *leup-tro-, cf. Slavic *lupU
> 'loot, booty' < *loup-o-, *lupiti 'plunder' < *loup-eje/o-. To make
> matters worse, the Skt. roots {lup-} and {rup-} represent the merger of
> PIE (?) *leup- 'rob, steal' and *reup- 'break off, harm' (Lat. rumpo:,
> OE re:ofan), so <loptra> might reflect *reup-tro- as well. Pokorny's
> entry for "*la:u-" is clearly in need of thorough revision; it may be an
> artificial collection of forms belonging to different etyma.
>
> Piotr
>
>