Re: Latin -idus as from dH- too

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:03:50 +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>On 2008-03-15 15:01, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
>> I need to add that dHugh2te'r itself HAVING a VOCALIZED
>> LARYNGEAL SHOWS THE ASPIRATION OF g > gh but NOT the pre-aspiration
>> of -t-
>
>This particular type of aspiration by *h2 is Indo-Iranian and not PIE
>(Ved. duhitá: but Gk. tHugáte:r). The pre-Indo-Aryan phonetic
>realisation of interconsonantal *h2 must have been something like *[hI],
>since the initial syllable may "make a position" (i.e. scan as heavy) in
>the RV (*dHug,hI,tá:(r) -- the commas indicate syllable boundaries).

OK, that explains it then.


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