Re: Latin -idus as from dH- too

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:04:01 +0100, "fournet.arnaud"
<fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Piotr Gasiorowski
>To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 10:20 PM
>Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Latin -idus as from dH- too
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>On 2008-03-15 21:34, fournet.arnaud wrote:
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>> What's the chain from
>> dhugH2°ter down to kbatra ?
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>Something like *dHug&2tr- > *dugatr- > *tuwatr- (cf. the HLuw. cognate)
>> *twatr- > *tbatr- > kbatr- (cf. *dwi- > Lyc. kbi- '2').
>
>Piotr
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>It's fascinating to see that
>the last vowel -a- comes out of *nothing*

It's the feminine ah2-stem ending, cf. Lyc. wawa < *gWo:ws
"cow", xawa < *h2owis "sheep", etc.


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