Re: Latin -idus as from dH- too

Perhaps she might have considered the morphological implications of the
final 'laryngeals'.

I am totally convinced that -*ter and -*dher are two different animals.


Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Latin -idus as from dH- too


> On 2008-03-15 21:20, fournet.arnaud wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Piotr Gasiorowski
> >
> > What other reasonable etymologies have you got for unaspirated vs.
> > aspirated stops in the instrumental suffix, for example?
> >
> > Piotr
> >
> > ===========================
> >
> > What do you mean, Piotr ?
> >
> > Arnaud
> >
> > ================
>
> The alternation traditionally reconstructed as *-tr/lo- ~ *dHr/lo- (Lat.
> -trum/-tra/-culum/-cula ~ -brum/-bra/-bulum/-bula, Gk. -t- vs. -tH-).
> Olsen shows that in Latin the latter variant occurs regularly after
> roots with final *h2 and *h1 (but not *h3).
>
> Piotr
>
>