Re: *a/*a: ablaut

From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 52916
Date: 2008-02-12

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> On 2008-02-12 23:25, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:
>
> > The root is *yag-. I see no reason for a laryngeal here.
>
> There might be an _initial_ laryngeal (especially if one believes
that
> an *h1 or *h2 is necessary before a *j to produce an aspirate rather
> than a zeta in Greek). Even LIV, which uses *a much too sparingly for
my
> taste, reconstructs this root as *hjag^-, without an internal *h2.
>
> Piotr


I thought that we have agreed in the past at least on this:

Lubotsky:
"
Recently, it was demonstrated by Beekes (forthcom.) that in the word-
initial sequence RHC- not the resonant but the laryngeal was vocalized,
yielding -a- in Italo-Celtic and Germanic and e/a/o (depending on the
kind of laryngeal) in Greek. This means that the above-mentioned roots
had an internal H2, which was vocalized in the zero grade.
"

But it seems that you have changed you mind since then

Could you try finally to derive hagi'os based on *hjag^-?

1. Why we should have a full grade here?

2. What is the suffix inside?

3. Where the accent position is/should be in relation with the
full/nil-grade of the root and the identified suffix?

Marius